Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Circinus Medical Technology LLC has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 4 examiners and 4 art units, showing complete separation at both examination levels.
BRUTUS, JOEL F is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile favors individualized response planning, with limited scope for a shared examiner strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRUTUS, JOEL F | 1 | 72.9% | +17.7% |
| LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | 1 | 67.7% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18808534 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL ORIENTATIONS OF SURGICAL HARDWARE DEVICES ABOUT AN INSERTION POINT OF AN ANATOMY | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19351147 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIDAR-BASED ANATOMICAL MAPPING | BRUTUS, JOEL F | — |
| 18553025 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING AN ORIENTATION OF A MEDICAL DEVICE AT AN INSERTION POINT | HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2613 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19351147 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIDAR-BASED ANATOMICAL MAPPING | BRUTUS, JOEL F | 3797 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
| 18808534 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL ORIENTATIONS OF SURGICAL HARDWARE DEVICES ABOUT AN INSERTION POINT OF AN ANATOMY | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18553025 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING AN ORIENTATION OF A MEDICAL DEVICE AT AN INSERTION POINT | HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | 3799 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCircinus Medical Technology LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Joel F Brutus has the most, with 1 of Circinus Medical Technology LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
