Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Clearpoint Neuro Inc. has 4 pending office actions currently active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual at the USPTO. This distribution suggests that the company is not currently facing a bottleneck with any single examiner.
The portfolio is distributed among 3 distinct art units, reflecting a moderate level of technical variety within the broader engineering category. GROSS, JASON PATRICK is the busiest examiner for the company, though he is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This means the workload is evenly distributed, as no examiner is handling more than one case.
With 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the company benefits from a variety of perspectives during the examination process. The involvement of 3 distinct art units indicates that the 4 pending office actions involve varied technologies that require different specialized knowledge bases. This spread can be advantageous for a company in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field to avoid systemic delays in a single art unit.
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 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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% |
| MACK, DELAINEY NOELLE | 1 | — | — |
| YANG, QIAN | 1 | 73.5% | +31.4% |
| THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18175638 | SURGICAL SYSTEMS INCLUDING FLEXIBLE MRI-COMPATIBLE SURGICAL CATHETERS FOR TRANSFERRING A SUBSTANCE TO AND/OR FROM A BRAIN OF A PATIENT | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 75d |
| 18658295 | PHYSIOLOGICALLY SYNCHRONIZED SURGICAL PROCEDURES | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
| 18364883 | AUTO EJECTING VACUUM TIP | MACK, DELAINEY NOELLE | — |
| 18348271 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF ANTERIOR COMMISSURE, POSTERIOR COMMISSURE, AND MID-SAGITTAL PLANE IN PATIENT SCANS | YANG, QIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658295 | PHYSIOLOGICALLY SYNCHRONIZED SURGICAL PROCEDURES | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | — |
| 18348271 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF ANTERIOR COMMISSURE, POSTERIOR COMMISSURE, AND MID-SAGITTAL PLANE IN PATIENT SCANS | YANG, QIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18658295 | PHYSIOLOGICALLY SYNCHRONIZED SURGICAL PROCEDURES | GROSS, JASON PATRICK | 3797 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18364883 | AUTO EJECTING VACUUM TIP | MACK, DELAINEY NOELLE | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18348271 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF ANTERIOR COMMISSURE, POSTERIOR COMMISSURE, AND MID-SAGITTAL PLANE IN PATIENT SCANS | YANG, QIAN | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
| 18175638 | SURGICAL SYSTEMS INCLUDING FLEXIBLE MRI-COMPATIBLE SURGICAL CATHETERS FOR TRANSFERRING A SUBSTANCE TO AND/OR FROM A BRAIN OF A PATIENT | THOMAN, EVELYN ANNE | 3783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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