Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brainlab AG has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 7 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units. KEFAYATI, SOORENA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The art-unit count indicates some technical grouping despite separate examiner assignments. Counsel can compare device-related claim issues within each art unit while preserving individualized analysis of the cited references and prosecution history. Because every matter has a distinct examiner, a common response framework should guide consistency without assuming uniform examiner treatment.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 1 | 83.9% | +7.3% |
| GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 1 | 64.0% | +43.3% |
| KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 1 | 86.4% | +21.0% |
| TANINGCO, MARCUS H | 1 | 81.0% | +6.6% |
| CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP | 1 | 72.3% | +6.5% |
| ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 1 | 26.8% | +32.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19208105 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROJECTING AN INCISION MARKER ONTO A PATIENT | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | — |
| 18855367 | ROBOTIC CALIBRATION | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | — |
| 18565330 | ORIENTING AN X-RAY DEVICE BASED ON AN ULTRASOUND IMAGE | TANINGCO, MARCUS H | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996510 | 2D TRACKING MARKER | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
| 18038459 | DETECTION OF FOREIGN OBJECTS IN INTRAOPERATIVE IMAGES | CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP | — |
| 17783675 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING INTERNAL ORGAN SHIFT | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996510 | 2D TRACKING MARKER | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
| 18855367 | ROBOTIC CALIBRATION | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | — |
| 17783675 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING INTERNAL ORGAN SHIFT | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 2 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19208105 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROJECTING AN INCISION MARKER ONTO A PATIENT | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 18996510 | 2D TRACKING MARKER | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 3797 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18855367 | ROBOTIC CALIBRATION | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18565330 | ORIENTING AN X-RAY DEVICE BASED ON AN ULTRASOUND IMAGE | TANINGCO, MARCUS H | 2884 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18038459 | DETECTION OF FOREIGN OBJECTS IN INTRAOPERATIVE IMAGES | CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP | 2674 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 17783675 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING INTERNAL ORGAN SHIFT | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialBrainlab AG has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Soorena Kefayati has the most, with 1 of Brainlab AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
