Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Disccath LLC

2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Portfolio Summary

2
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
2
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

20 h
Manual time on pending OAs
4 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
7 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1 36.2% +46.0%
MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH 1 71.4% +45.0%

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18436797 Methods and Compositions for Treatment of Intervertebral Disc Disease BOECKELMAN, JACOB A
17426858 MEDICAL DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING THERAPEUTIC AGENTS DIRECTLY INTO THE ANNULUS FIBROSUS OF AN INTERVERTEBRAL DISC MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1655 1
3783 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18436797 Methods and Compositions for Treatment of Intervertebral Disc Disease BOECKELMAN, JACOB A 1655 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 08, 2024
17426858 MEDICAL DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING THERAPEUTIC AGENTS DIRECTLY INTO THE ANNULUS FIBROSUS OF AN INTERVERTEBRAL DISC MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH 3783 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 29, 2021

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