Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
17 pending office actions • 8 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 9 (53%) |
| §102 only | 4 (24%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3 | 56.4% | +48.4% |
| PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 2 | 77.7% | +12.9% |
| OUYANG, BO | 1 | 60.8% | +8.9% |
| PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1 | 77.0% | +5.9% |
| PAUMEN, GARY F | 1 | 88.6% | -1.5% |
| RHODES, NORA W | 1 | 53.3% | +26.7% |
| AKAR, SERKAN | 1 | 65.7% | +33.4% |
| GANAN-SINGH, CHRISTINA MERAIAH | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| TRAN, THIEN JASON | 1 | 74.1% | +24.2% |
| THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | 1 | 73.5% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18440693 | CONNECTION DEVICE | PAUMEN, GARY F | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18065646 | Rotary Connector | ARTALEJO, ELIZABETH IRENE | 124d overdue |
| 18513378 | COAGULATION INSTRUMENT | GANAN-SINGH, CHRISTINA MERAIAH | 60d overdue |
| 18373123 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING AN EVALUATION OF A VIDEO-ASSISTED MEDICAL INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURE | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | — |
| 17408791 | Device and Method for Tissue Analysis | KELLOGG, MICHAEL S | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17628709 | INSTRUMENT FOR PLASMA SURGERY AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PLASMA | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 66d overdue |
| 18377680 | ABLATION PROBE WITH INNER COOLING | TRAN, THIEN JASON | 49d overdue |
| 19051828 | ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH CARBON FIBER ELECTRODE | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | — |
| 18882855 | ABLATION INSTRUMENT | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | — |
| 18408910 | SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATION THEREOF | RHODES, NORA W | — |
| 18406970 | PLASMA PROBE FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT OF TISSUE | AKAR, SERKAN | — |
| 18373123 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING AN EVALUATION OF A VIDEO-ASSISTED MEDICAL INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURE | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | — |
| 17628666 | ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 8 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19051828 | ELECTROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH CARBON FIBER ELECTRODE | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18882855 | ABLATION INSTRUMENT | PEFFLEY, MICHAEL F | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18642171 | PLASMA INSTRUMENT WITH LATERAL WINDOWS | OUYANG, BO | 3794 | §102 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18608085 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SPRAYING LIQUIDS | PROCTOR, CACHET I | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18440693 | CONNECTION DEVICE | PAUMEN, GARY F | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18408910 | SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATION THEREOF | RHODES, NORA W | 3794 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18406970 | PLASMA PROBE FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT OF TISSUE | AKAR, SERKAN | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18513378 | COAGULATION INSTRUMENT | GANAN-SINGH, CHRISTINA MERAIAH | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18377680 | ABLATION PROBE WITH INNER COOLING | TRAN, THIEN JASON | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18373123 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING AN EVALUATION OF A VIDEO-ASSISTED MEDICAL INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURE | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | 2672 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18065646 | Rotary Connector | ARTALEJO, ELIZABETH IRENE | 3637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 124d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 17955025 | INSTRUMENT CONNECTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | LALONDE, ALEXANDRA ELIZABETH | 3783 | §112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17942251 | GENERATOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TREATMENT VOLTAGE | GOOD, SAMANTHA M | 3794 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17628709 | INSTRUMENT FOR PLASMA SURGERY AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PLASMA | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
| 17628666 | ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
| 17628727 | ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
| 17408791 | Device and Method for Tissue Analysis | KELLOGG, MICHAEL S | 3798 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2021 |
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