Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
12 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 10 (83%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, LI-TING | 1 | 65.1% | +38.9% |
| LONG, SARAH A | 1 | 60.6% | +41.9% |
| VAUGHN JR, WILLIAM C | 1 | 21.7% | +57.8% |
| NGUYEN, DAVID VAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 1 | 76.3% | +27.0% |
| CHIEM, DINH D | 1 | 72.4% | +16.3% |
| BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 1 | 35.0% | +25.0% |
| MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 1 | 26.9% | +73.3% |
| MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 1 | 60.6% | +22.0% |
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 39.5% | +45.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721111 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING A WHITEBOARD IMAGE | NGUYEN, DAVID VAN | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17727573 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 42d overdue |
| 18721437 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTED VIEWS IN AN ONLINE MEETING | VAUGHN JR, WILLIAM C | 36d overdue |
| 17512503 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING STENOSIS MEASUREMENTS AND CALCULATIONS | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 35d overdue |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17744121 | Intravascular Pressure Sensing Using Inner Sheath | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 93d overdue |
| 17936791 | MEDICAL DEVICE DISTAL OPTICS POTTING | CHIEM, DINH D | 71d overdue |
| 17727573 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 42d overdue |
| 18721437 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTED VIEWS IN AN ONLINE MEETING | VAUGHN JR, WILLIAM C | 36d overdue |
| 17512503 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING STENOSIS MEASUREMENTS AND CALCULATIONS | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 35d overdue |
| 18836989 | MEDICAL APPARATUS WITH WIRE ANCHORS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | LONG, SARAH A | 10d overdue |
| 17526743 | SINGLE-STEP DNA PREPARATION FOR POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION USING MAGNETIC CHITOSAN MICROPARTICLES | MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 14d |
| 18837447 | COLLISION WARNING FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | SONG, LI-TING | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 5 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 2617 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 1681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18837447 | COLLISION WARNING FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | SONG, LI-TING | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18836989 | MEDICAL APPARATUS WITH WIRE ANCHORS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | LONG, SARAH A | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18721437 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTED VIEWS IN AN ONLINE MEETING | VAUGHN JR, WILLIAM C | 2481 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18721111 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING A WHITEBOARD IMAGE | NGUYEN, DAVID VAN | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18018976 | CATHETER SHAFT WITH TAPERED INNER DIAMETER FOR IMPROVED FLOW RATE | DOUBRAVA, JOHN A | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 17936791 | MEDICAL DEVICE DISTAL OPTICS POTTING | CHIEM, DINH D | 2874 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17744121 | Intravascular Pressure Sensing Using Inner Sheath | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 93d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2022 |
| 17727573 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FLUORESCENCE IMAGING | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
| 17526743 | SINGLE-STEP DNA PREPARATION FOR POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION USING MAGNETIC CHITOSAN MICROPARTICLES | MUMMERT, STEPHANIE KANE | 1681 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Nov 15, 2021 |
| 17512503 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING STENOSIS MEASUREMENTS AND CALCULATIONS | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 3791 | §101 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2021 |
| 17182910 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CATHETER TARGET LOCKING | JANG, ELINA SOHYUN | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 216d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2021 |
| 17077480 | MEDICAL APPARATUS WITH SEGMENTED BENDABLE SECTIONS | WEARE, MEREDITH H | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Oct 22, 2020 |
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