Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coopersurgical Inc. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 4 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, which shows a direct ratio of pending matters to individual examiners. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, suggesting some technical breadth within its primary sector. This distribution means that no 2 pending actions are being reviewed by the same person.
STEVEN J COTRONEO is the busiest examiner for the company, though he handles only 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 4 pending office actions are evenly distributed among the 4 distinct examiners. Practitioners can expect to manage multiple individual relationships across the 2 distinct art units rather than dealing with a single primary examiner for the bulk of the pending work. The use of 4 distinct examiners for 4 actions suggests a diverse range of perspectives will influence the portfolio's current trajectory.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 83.0% | +24.3% |
| JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 1 | 63.8% | +30.0% |
| SULTANA, DILARA | 1 | 80.9% | +16.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17967930 | Methods of Calibrating a Blood Flow Monitoring Device, Methods of Monitoring Blood Flow, and Blood Flow Monitoring Systems | SULTANA, DILARA | 45d overdue |
| 18769851 | ILLUMINATED SURGICAL RETRACTOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18598030 | ILLUMINATED MAGNET SAFE RETRACTORS AND OTHER MEDICAL DEVICES | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 140d overdue |
| 17967930 | Methods of Calibrating a Blood Flow Monitoring Device, Methods of Monitoring Blood Flow, and Blood Flow Monitoring Systems | SULTANA, DILARA | 45d overdue |
| 18769851 | ILLUMINATED SURGICAL RETRACTOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 2 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18769851 | ILLUMINATED SURGICAL RETRACTOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18598030 | ILLUMINATED MAGNET SAFE RETRACTORS AND OTHER MEDICAL DEVICES | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 140d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 17967930 | Methods of Calibrating a Blood Flow Monitoring Device, Methods of Monitoring Blood Flow, and Blood Flow Monitoring Systems | SULTANA, DILARA | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
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