Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brainlab AG is managing 7 pending office actions. These matters are situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution involves 7 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units. Jason Patrick Gross is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending action.
The fact that 7 pending office actions are handled by 7 distinct examiners means that every pending matter is assigned to a different individual. This distribution across 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering innovations are being evaluated by several different technical teams. For practitioners, this requires a versatile approach to address the specific requirements of 4 distinct art units. Because no examiner is handling more than 1 pending action, the company's success is not overly dependent on any single person. This decentralized model can lead to a variety of prosecution outcomes across the 7 pending office actions. Managing this portfolio requires careful coordination to ensure that arguments remain consistent across the different examiners and art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (29%) |
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 1 | 64.0% | +43.3% |
| KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | 1 | 86.2% | +21.3% |
| COX, THADDEUS B | 1 | 76.8% | +19.1% |
| STEAR, RYAN JAMES | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| TANINGCO, MARCUS H | 1 | 81.0% | +6.6% |
| CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP | 1 | 75.0% | +13.7% |
| MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 1 | 51.8% | +56.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996510 | 2D TRACKING MARKER | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
| 18704770 | CT-LESS FREE BREATHING IMAGE CONTOUR FOR PLANNING RADIATION TREATMENT | COX, THADDEUS B | — |
| 18687584 | ULTRASOUND TO 3D REGISTRATION USING A-MODE SIGNALS | STEAR, RYAN JAMES | — |
| 18038459 | DETECTION OF FOREIGN OBJECTS IN INTRAOPERATIVE IMAGES | CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17864914 | UTILIZATION OF A TRANSPORTABLE CT-SCANNER FOR RADIOTHERAPY PROCEDURES | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 28d |
| 18996510 | 2D TRACKING MARKER | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
| 18855367 | ROBOTIC CALIBRATION | KATZ, DYLAN MICHAEL | — |
| 18704770 | CT-LESS FREE BREATHING IMAGE CONTOUR FOR PLANNING RADIATION TREATMENT | COX, THADDEUS B | — |
| 18038459 | DETECTION OF FOREIGN OBJECTS IN INTRAOPERATIVE IMAGES | CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18704770 | CT-LESS FREE BREATHING IMAGE CONTOUR FOR PLANNING RADIATION TREATMENT | COX, THADDEUS B | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18687584 | ULTRASOUND TO 3D REGISTRATION USING A-MODE SIGNALS | STEAR, RYAN JAMES | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 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 |
| 17864914 | UTILIZATION OF A TRANSPORTABLE CT-SCANNER FOR RADIOTHERAPY PROCEDURES | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 3797 | §112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 14, 2022 |
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