Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Edge Surgical Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners but are located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the applications are in the same specialized group, they are being reviewed by different individuals. The concentration within 1 art unit indicates a high degree of technical similarity between the pending matters.
CHRISTIAN ANTHONY SEVILLA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since the total pending office actions is 2 and the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is split across the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that no single examiner currently manages the majority of the company's pending matters. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific expectations of 2 different examiners within the same Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEVILLA, CHRISTIAN ANTHONY | 1 | 75.9% | +19.4% |
| COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 1 | 72.2% | +26.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18382772 | BENDING THE PROBES OF DEPTH GAUGES | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 56d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18382772 | BENDING THE PROBES OF DEPTH GAUGES | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 56d overdue |
| 18411217 | DEVICES FOR USE IN ROBOT-ASSISTED MEDICAL PROCEDURES | SEVILLA, CHRISTIAN ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18411217 | DEVICES FOR USE IN ROBOT-ASSISTED MEDICAL PROCEDURES | SEVILLA, CHRISTIAN ANTHONY | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18382772 | BENDING THE PROBES OF DEPTH GAUGES | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 3775 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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