Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Digital Surgery Limited has 6 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are assigned to 6 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner distribution with some concentration among the art-unit assignments.
LI, JAI WEI TOMMY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. No examiner has a larger listed workload, so counsel should organize prosecution around individual application records rather than a dominant examiner relationship.
Communications claims can depend heavily on precise functional relationships and system architecture. A coordinated terminology review may help across the portfolio, while separate art-unit analyses should guide amendments and responses to technical objections.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (29%) |
| §103 only | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 57.5% | +40.3% |
| LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LUAN, SCOTT | 1 | 65.6% | +12.2% |
| LI, SUN M | 1 | 53.5% | +27.3% |
| CHU, RANDOLPH I | 1 | 80.4% | +6.4% |
| HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | 1 | 76.7% | +20.9% |
| BARHAM, RYAN ALLEN | 1 | 52.9% | +57.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18993260 | USER INTERFACE FOR STRUCTURES DETECTED IN SURGICAL PROCEDURES | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | — |
| 18848278 | SELF-KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION FOR SURGICAL PHASE RECOGNITION | CHU, RANDOLPH I | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19126761 | OPERATING ROOM DASHBOARD | GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 18855003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SURGICAL WORKFLOW OUTLIERS | LI, SUN 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684292 | POSITION-AWARE TEMPORAL GRAPH NETWORKS FOR SURGICAL PHASE RECOGNITION ON LAPAROSCOPIC VIDEOS | HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | 70d |
| 19126761 | OPERATING ROOM DASHBOARD | GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 18867845 | USER-ACTIVATED ADAPTIVE MODE FOR SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | LUAN, SCOTT | — |
| 18855003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SURGICAL WORKFLOW OUTLIERS | LI, SUN M | — |
| 18290041 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLINICAL WORKSPACE SIMULATION | BARHAM, RYAN ALLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2613 | 2 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19126761 | OPERATING ROOM DASHBOARD | GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | 3683 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 18993260 | USER INTERFACE FOR STRUCTURES DETECTED IN SURGICAL PROCEDURES | LI, JAI WEI TOMMY | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18867845 | USER-ACTIVATED ADAPTIVE MODE FOR SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | LUAN, SCOTT | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18855003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SURGICAL WORKFLOW OUTLIERS | LI, SUN M | 3685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18848278 | SELF-KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION FOR SURGICAL PHASE RECOGNITION | CHU, RANDOLPH I | 2667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18684292 | POSITION-AWARE TEMPORAL GRAPH NETWORKS FOR SURGICAL PHASE RECOGNITION ON LAPAROSCOPIC VIDEOS | HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M | 2671 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18290041 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLINICAL WORKSPACE SIMULATION | BARHAM, RYAN ALLEN | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDigital Surgery Limited has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Christopher L Gilligan has the most, with 1 of Digital Surgery Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
