Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cornerstone Technology (Shenzhen) Limited currently has 5 pending office actions in the technology area of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, which indicates that no single examiner is handling more than 1 case. This distribution suggests a broad allocation of the company's legal matters across the patent office staff.
The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, showing that the pending office actions are grouped into specific technical clusters within the medical and mechanical fields. While the number of examiners is higher than the 3 distinct art units, the concentration in these units provides some level of organizational consistency for the company's prosecution strategy.
LUIS A GONZALEZ is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since this examiner is responsible for 1 of the total actions, the workload is distributed among the various examiners. Practitioners must prepare for separate sets of examiner preferences across the 3 distinct art units involved to successfully navigate the pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GONZALEZ, LUIS A | 1 | 84.9% | +4.6% |
| BYRD, BRIGID K | 1 | 71.4% | +46.4% |
| FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 1 | 80.1% | +21.9% |
| PRATHER, GREGORY T | 1 | 68.5% | +21.8% |
| HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 1 | 58.3% | +61.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039731 | SURGICAL MANIPULATOR AND SURGICAL ROBOT | GONZALEZ, LUIS A | — |
| 18919421 | CONTROL MECHANISM OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND SURGICAL ROBOT | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19036939 | END EFFECTOR AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING THE SAME | BYRD, BRIGID K | — |
| 18412470 | TRANSMISSION AND CONNECTION STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTING INSTRUMENT DRIVE AND STERILE ADAPTER, AND SURGICAL ROBOT INCLUDING THE SAME | PRATHER, GREGORY T | — |
| 18411791 | TRANSMISSION AND CONNECTION STRUCTURE FOR STERILE ADAPTER AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND INSTRUMENT DRIVE TRANSMISSION MECHANISM FOR SURGICAL ROBOT | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19036939 | END EFFECTOR AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING THE SAME | BYRD, BRIGID K | — |
| 18919421 | CONTROL MECHANISM OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND SURGICAL ROBOT | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
| 18412470 | TRANSMISSION AND CONNECTION STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTING INSTRUMENT DRIVE AND STERILE ADAPTER, AND SURGICAL ROBOT INCLUDING THE SAME | PRATHER, GREGORY T | — |
| 18411791 | TRANSMISSION AND CONNECTION STRUCTURE FOR STERILE ADAPTER AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND INSTRUMENT DRIVE TRANSMISSION MECHANISM FOR SURGICAL ROBOT | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039731 | SURGICAL MANIPULATOR AND SURGICAL ROBOT | GONZALEZ, LUIS A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19036939 | END EFFECTOR AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING THE SAME | BYRD, BRIGID K | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18919421 | CONTROL MECHANISM OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND SURGICAL ROBOT | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18412470 | TRANSMISSION AND CONNECTION STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTING INSTRUMENT DRIVE AND STERILE ADAPTER, AND SURGICAL ROBOT INCLUDING THE SAME | PRATHER, GREGORY T | 3773 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2024 |
| 18411791 | TRANSMISSION AND CONNECTION STRUCTURE FOR STERILE ADAPTER AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND INSTRUMENT DRIVE TRANSMISSION MECHANISM FOR SURGICAL ROBOT | HILSMIER, HEIDI ANN | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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