Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
CMR Surgical Limited manages 11 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 6 distinct art units, showing a range of surgical and mechanical innovations. The company interacts with 9 distinct examiners during the prosecution process. Sidney Leigh Molnar is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 2 pending office actions.
The other 9 pending actions are distributed among other distinct examiners. This variety of 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's medical device technology is categorized into several different specialized fields. With 9 distinct examiners involved in 11 pending actions, the company must navigate many individual examiner perspectives. Sidney Leigh Molnar manages 2 of the active matters. The number of examiners is higher than the 6 distinct art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 | 52.2% | +63.0% |
| CHOU, WILLIAM B | 2 | 72.6% | +20.6% |
| WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | 1 | 74.1% | +23.3% |
| RINK, RYAN J | 1 | 78.4% | +10.8% |
| TORRES, JOSE | 1 | 82.0% | +12.2% |
| SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
| ANDERSON, MICHAEL W. | 1 | 44.7% | +52.7% |
| SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 1 | 58.1% | +58.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18043409 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR SURGICAL ROBOT SYSTEM WITH SAFETY MONITOR | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 2 |
| 3795 | 2 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2664 | 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 | — | §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 |
| 18881086 | APPLYING ENERGY TO AN ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 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 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
| 17811098 | CAMERA CONTROL | CHOU, WILLIAM B | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
| 17811099 | CAMERA CONTROL | CHOU, WILLIAM B | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
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