Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 2 | 72.6% | +12.0% |
| SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 1 | 66.2% | +25.4% |
| FLICK, JASON E | 1 | 80.5% | +13.5% |
| SMITH, CHAD | 1 | 79.0% | +20.4% |
| OUYANG, BO | 1 | 60.8% | +8.9% |
| DELLA, JAYMI E | 1 | 68.6% | +29.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18598498 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS | FLICK, JASON E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577224 | A CABLE ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SMITH, CHAD | 23d overdue |
| 18722504 | ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | — |
| 17055474 | ELECTROSURGICAL ABLATION INSTRUMENT | DELLA, JAYMI E | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291793 | POWER TRANSFER ASSEMBLY AND AN ELECROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 60d overdue |
| 18577224 | A CABLE ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SMITH, CHAD | 23d overdue |
| 19114363 | AN APPARATUS FOR SENSING A BIOLOGICAL TISSUE | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | — |
| 18722504 | ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | — |
| 18598498 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS | FLICK, JASON E | — |
| 17055474 | ELECTROSURGICAL ABLATION INSTRUMENT | DELLA, JAYMI E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 4 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19114363 | AN APPARATUS FOR SENSING A BIOLOGICAL TISSUE | SAKAMOTO, COLIN T | 3798 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 18722504 | ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18598498 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS | FLICK, JASON E | 3783 | §103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18291793 | POWER TRANSFER ASSEMBLY AND AN ELECROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18577224 | A CABLE ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SMITH, CHAD | 2874 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18267052 | ELECTROSURGICAL RESECTOR TOOL | OUYANG, BO | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17055474 | ELECTROSURGICAL ABLATION INSTRUMENT | DELLA, JAYMI E | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2020 |
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