Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Calyxo Inc. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's medical device innovations fall into at least 2 different technical categories at the USPTO. The involvement of 2 art units requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the different standards of each division.
The 5 pending office actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending case is assigned to a different individual. This distribution of 5 distinct examiners for 5 actions ensures that the company's patent outcomes are not controlled by a single individual's preferences. Instead, the company must manage five separate negotiations to advance its current portfolio.
NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Because the busiest examiner's load is only 1 of the 5 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly balanced across the examiner pool. This decentralized structure means that the progress of the company's patent applications is spread across multiple USPTO officials, reducing the impact of any single examiner's timeline.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | 1 | 77.8% | +13.5% |
| KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 1 | 71.2% | +33.4% |
| ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 1 | 72.9% | +17.4% |
| CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 1 | 59.6% | +27.7% |
| MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 1 | 60.3% | +49.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18766393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUIDED REMOVAL FROM AN IN VIVO SUBJECT | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 33d |
| 19055963 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND PREVENTING ORGAN COLLAPSE DURING ENDOSCOPY | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18766393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUIDED REMOVAL FROM AN IN VIVO SUBJECT | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 33d |
| 19055963 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND PREVENTING ORGAN COLLAPSE DURING ENDOSCOPY | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | — |
| 18740388 | FORCE-LIMITING ACCESS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | — |
| 18373229 | TOOL GUIDING DEVICE FOR KIDNEY STONE TREATMENT APPARATUS | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | — |
| 17489723 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE KIDNEY STONE REMOVAL BY COMBINED ASPIRATION AND IRRIGATION | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19055963 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND PREVENTING ORGAN COLLAPSE DURING ENDOSCOPY | NEAL, TIMOTHY JAY | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18766393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUIDED REMOVAL FROM AN IN VIVO SUBJECT | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18740388 | FORCE-LIMITING ACCESS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18373229 | TOOL GUIDING DEVICE FOR KIDNEY STONE TREATMENT APPARATUS | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 3792 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 17489723 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE KIDNEY STONE REMOVAL BY COMBINED ASPIRATION AND IRRIGATION | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2021 |
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