Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Brainlab AG

8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (62%)
3
Easy (38%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (62%)
§112 only3 (38%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
12% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
2
Communications
25% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
62% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S 2 47.7% +41.8%
PARK, PATRICIA JOO YOUNG 1 56.9% +15.5%
NGUYEN, ALLEN H 1 84.4% +12.8%
PATEL, PINALBEN V 1 88.9% +9.7%
SMITH JR., JIMMY R 1 64.9% +42.9%
MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 1 50.8% +57.1%
HANKS, BENJAMIN L 1 21.0% +29.9%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18682215 AUTOFOCUS PATEL, PINALBEN V 27d
18693772 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A REGION OF INTEREST NGUYEN, ALLEN H 35d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17279904 AUTOMATIC SETTING OF IMAGING PARAMETERS HANKS, BENJAMIN L 15d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18292381 SEGMENTED ULTRASOUND PROBE VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S 2d overdue
18865760 DETERMINING ELECTRODE ORIENTATION USING OPTIMIZED IMAGING PARAMETERS PARK, PATRICIA JOO YOUNG 12d
18718538 DOUBLE-SIDED ULTRASOUND IMAGE ACQUISITION VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S 15d
17279904 AUTOMATIC SETTING OF IMAGING PARAMETERS HANKS, BENJAMIN L 15d
18543441 MULTI-PART MARKER SMITH JR., JIMMY R 22d
17864914 UTILIZATION OF A TRANSPORTABLE CT-SCANNER FOR RADIOTHERAPY PROCEDURES MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 28d
18693772 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A REGION OF INTEREST NGUYEN, ALLEN H 35d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3798 3
2683 1
2673 1
1745 1
3797 1
3684 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18865760 DETERMINING ELECTRODE ORIENTATION USING OPTIMIZED IMAGING PARAMETERS PARK, PATRICIA JOO YOUNG 3798 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Nov 14, 2024
18718538 DOUBLE-SIDED ULTRASOUND IMAGE ACQUISITION VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S 3798 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jun 11, 2024
18693772 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A REGION OF INTEREST NGUYEN, ALLEN H 2683 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Mar 20, 2024
18682215 AUTOFOCUS PATEL, PINALBEN V 2673 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 08, 2024
18292381 SEGMENTED ULTRASOUND PROBE VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S 3798 §112 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Jan 26, 2024
18543441 MULTI-PART MARKER SMITH JR., JIMMY R 1745 §112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 18, 2023
17864914 UTILIZATION OF A TRANSPORTABLE CT-SCANNER FOR RADIOTHERAPY PROCEDURES MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP 3797 §112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jul 14, 2022
17279904 AUTOMATIC SETTING OF IMAGING PARAMETERS HANKS, BENJAMIN L 3684 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Mar 25, 2021

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