Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Circinus Medical Technology LLC has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. These 3 actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. BRUTUS, JOEL F is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Each case is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit, indicating no overlap in the current pending portfolio. This means that each pending matter is being prosecuted in a unique technical and administrative environment.
The 3 distinct art units indicate that the company's medical device innovations fall into different specialized classifications. With 3 distinct examiners, the company must manage three unique prosecution styles simultaneously. Because each examiner handles 1 pending office action, no single individual has more influence than another over the portfolio's progress. Practitioners should be prepared to tailor their arguments to the specific preferences of 3 different examiners rather than relying on a centralized strategy. Each of the 3 pending office actions must be treated as an independent effort, as there are no shared data points between them. This profile reflects a diverse and distributed prosecution landscape.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 | 72.8% | +17.7% |
| TRAN, TRANG U | 1 | 78.6% | +15.8% |
| HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | 1 | 67.6% | +28.3% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18801224 | ORIENTATION CALIBRATION SYSTEM FOR IMAGE CAPTURE | TRAN, TRANG U | 29d overdue |
| 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 |
| 2422 | 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 |
| 18801224 | ORIENTATION CALIBRATION SYSTEM FOR IMAGE CAPTURE | TRAN, TRANG U | 2422 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 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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