Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
23 pending office actions • 17 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 74 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 23 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 17 (74%) |
| §102 only | 1 (4%) |
| No statute on record | 5 (22%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEUBECKER, JOHN P | 2 | 74.8% | +10.6% |
| PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 1 | 62.0% | +29.0% |
| WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 1 | 71.6% | +13.9% |
| GOKHALE, PRASAD V | 1 | 85.8% | +8.3% |
| CULLEN, TANNER L | 1 | 71.5% | +16.2% |
| COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 46.8% | +27.2% |
| JEN, MINGJEN | 1 | 80.1% | +13.6% |
| MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | 1 | 76.8% | +9.2% |
| NEJAD, MAHDI H | 1 | 73.7% | +29.2% |
| CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668883 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC ARM ALIGNMENT AND DOCKING | JEN, MINGJEN | 31d overdue |
| 18753591 | VIBRATION DAMPING FOR SURGICAL SYSTEMS | GOKHALE, PRASAD V | 22d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18536621 | INTEGRATION OF FORCE ISOLATION ELEMENTS INTO STEERABLE ELONGATE MEMBER | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 83d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668883 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC ARM ALIGNMENT AND DOCKING | JEN, MINGJEN | 31d overdue |
| 18505993 | VECTOR-BASED LUMINAL NETWORK BRANCH MAPPING | LEUBECKER, JOHN P | 31d overdue |
| 18793569 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL INSTRUMENT COMPRESSION COMPENSATION | LEUBECKER, JOHN P | 11d overdue |
| 18750604 | INSTRUMENT TIP VIBRATION ATTENUATION FOR A MASTER-SLAVE LAPAROSCOPIC ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM | CULLEN, TANNER L | 4d overdue |
| 18750749 | OFFSCREEN INDICATOR VIEWER USER INTERFACE | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 6d |
| 18400555 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ACTIVE DRIVE SYSTEMS | NEJAD, MAHDI H | 20d |
| 18886957 | CONTINUOUS TELEOPERATION WITH ASSISTIVE MASTER CONTROL | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 34d |
| 19006086 | REGISTRATION OF IMAGING SYSTEM WITH SENSOR SYSTEM FOR INSTRUMENT NAVIGATION | PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 3 |
| 3657 | 3 |
| 3799 | 2 |
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2482 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19006086 | REGISTRATION OF IMAGING SYSTEM WITH SENSOR SYSTEM FOR INSTRUMENT NAVIGATION | PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18886957 | CONTINUOUS TELEOPERATION WITH ASSISTIVE MASTER CONTROL | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18793569 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL INSTRUMENT COMPRESSION COMPENSATION | LEUBECKER, JOHN P | 3795 | Other | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18753591 | VIBRATION DAMPING FOR SURGICAL SYSTEMS | GOKHALE, PRASAD V | 3653 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18750604 | INSTRUMENT TIP VIBRATION ATTENUATION FOR A MASTER-SLAVE LAPAROSCOPIC ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM | CULLEN, TANNER L | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18750749 | OFFSCREEN INDICATOR VIEWER USER INTERFACE | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18668883 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC ARM ALIGNMENT AND DOCKING | JEN, MINGJEN | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18586334 | INSTRUMENT SHAPE ESTIMATION | MESSMORE, JONATHAN R | 2482 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18400555 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ACTIVE DRIVE SYSTEMS | NEJAD, MAHDI H | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18536621 | INTEGRATION OF FORCE ISOLATION ELEMENTS INTO STEERABLE ELONGATE MEMBER | CIRULNICK, EMILY NICOLE | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18505993 | VECTOR-BASED LUMINAL NETWORK BRANCH MAPPING | LEUBECKER, JOHN P | 3795 | Other | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18504837 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSTRUMENT BASED INSERTION ARCHITECTURES | GEDEON, BRIAN T | 3796 | Other | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18325954 | ROBOTIC MANIPULATOR MANUAL MOVEMENT ASSISTANCE | NGUYEN, ROBERT T | 3619 | Other | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18324810 | CANNULA REDUCER | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18324814 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNIFIED NULL SPACE MOTION CONTROL | DOROS, KAYLA RENEE | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18309294 | PRE-DOCKING POSE OPTIMIZATION | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18110870 | COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN SURGICAL ROBOTICS BASED ON NON-CONTACT INFORMATION | ESPINOZA, ABIGAIL LEE | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 119d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
| 18067688 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INSTRUMENT POSE ESTIMATION | ZHANG, FAN | 2682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 18067691 | Augmenting images with positional information | PEDAPATI, CHANDHANA | 2669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 18057699 | ROBOTIC SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATION OF LUMINAL NETWORK THAT DETECT PHYSIOLOGICAL NOISE | HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | 3799 | Other | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17941062 | BENT INTRODUCER CANNULA FOR SURGICAL SCOPE IN ROBOTIC SYSTEM | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17833806 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING TRANSLATABLE SPOOL | BOLER, RYNAE E | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 06, 2022 |
| 17353736 | ROBOTIC MEDICAL SYSTEMS INCLUDING USER INTERFACES WITH GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF USER INPUT DEVICES | SMITH, BENJAMIN J | 2172 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jun 21, 2021 |
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