Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEEKS, GLORIA R | 1 | 70.3% | +12.3% |
| HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 1 | 49.5% | +53.6% |
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 1 | 72.7% | +12.1% |
| HODGE, LINDA J | 1 | 87.6% | +26.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17847059 | A SURGICAL STAPLER AND COMPONENTS AND METHODS THEREFOR | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494775 | SEALER - DIVIDER - DISSECTOR AND RELATED METHODS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19072886 | SURGICAL STAPLER AND RELATED METHODS | WEEKS, GLORIA R | — |
| 18494775 | SEALER - DIVIDER - DISSECTOR AND RELATED METHODS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | — |
| 18362861 | E-CUT SEALER-DIVIDER | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | — |
| 17847059 | A SURGICAL STAPLER AND COMPONENTS AND METHODS THEREFOR | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19072886 | SURGICAL STAPLER AND RELATED METHODS | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18494775 | SEALER - DIVIDER - DISSECTOR AND RELATED METHODS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18362861 | E-CUT SEALER-DIVIDER | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 17847059 | A SURGICAL STAPLER AND COMPONENTS AND METHODS THEREFOR | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
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