Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
CMR Surgical Limited has 11 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio involves 10 distinct examiners across 9 distinct art units. The data indicates broad distribution, with limited repetition among both examiner and technical assignments.
MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The repeated examiner relationship provides a basis for targeted monitoring, while the remaining matters require separate analysis. Counsel should coordinate recurring mechanical or system claim themes without assuming that one examiner’s approach applies across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 2 | 50.0% | +51.3% |
| WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | 1 | 72.1% | +21.3% |
| RINK, RYAN J | 1 | 78.6% | +10.7% |
| TORRES, JOSE | 1 | 82.0% | +12.2% |
| KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 1 | 45.0% | +6.2% |
| SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
| EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 1 | 74.8% | +4.4% |
| ANDERSON, MICHAEL W | 1 | 44.1% | +53.1% |
| SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 1 | 54.8% | +51.6% |
| CAIN, AARON G | 1 | 43.0% | +31.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996029 | PROCESSING SURGICAL DATA | TORRES, JOSE | 45d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19021872 | ENDOSCOPE | KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 16d overdue |
| 19150064 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | — |
| 18996605 | CONTROLLING A JOINT IN A ROBOTIC ARM | RINK, RYAN J | — |
| 18881086 | APPLYING ENERGY TO AN ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | — |
| 18247482 | SURGICAL ROBOT CALIBRATION DEVICE | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996029 | PROCESSING SURGICAL DATA | TORRES, JOSE | 45d overdue |
| 18012771 | JOINT CONTROL IN A MECHANICAL SYSTEM | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 7d |
| 18617523 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A SURGICAL ROBOT ARM | ANDERSON, MICHAEL W | 41d |
| 17995235 | CONTROL SYSTEM OF A SURGICAL ROBOT | CAIN, AARON G | 56d |
| 19150064 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | — |
| 18996605 | CONTROLLING A JOINT IN A ROBOTIC ARM | RINK, RYAN J | — |
| 18881086 | APPLYING ENERGY TO AN ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | — |
| 18247482 | SURGICAL ROBOT CALIBRATION DEVICE | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 3 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19150064 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | 3657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 18996605 | CONTROLLING A JOINT IN A ROBOTIC ARM | RINK, RYAN J | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18996029 | PROCESSING SURGICAL DATA | TORRES, JOSE | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19021872 | ENDOSCOPE | KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18881086 | APPLYING ENERGY TO AN ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18880437 | CALIBRATING A SURGICAL ROBOT ARM | EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18617523 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A SURGICAL ROBOT ARM | ANDERSON, MICHAEL W | 3693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18247482 | SURGICAL ROBOT CALIBRATION DEVICE | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18043409 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR SURGICAL ROBOT SYSTEM WITH SAFETY MONITOR | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18012771 | JOINT CONTROL IN A MECHANICAL SYSTEM | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
| 17995235 | CONTROL SYSTEM OF A SURGICAL ROBOT | CAIN, AARON G | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCMR Surgical Limited has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 10 examiners.
Sidney Leigh Molnar has the most, with 2 of CMR Surgical Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
