Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (55%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 2 | 73.0% | +15.0% |
| SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H | 2 | 41.8% | +38.6% |
| JONES, DIANA S | 1 | 75.0% | +20.2% |
| PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 1 | 46.5% | +18.1% |
| RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 1 | 63.6% | +58.0% |
| LIU, TRACY | 1 | 54.5% | +27.3% |
| STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 1 | 52.7% | +40.9% |
| WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL | 1 | 45.8% | +23.9% |
| COLLINS, SEAN W | 1 | 74.6% | +27.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19014719 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR RECONSTITUTING THERAPEUTIC POWDERS, MIXING PRECURSOR SOLUTIONS, AND EXPRESSING SEALANTS FOR CONTROLLING BLEEDING AND SEALING FLUID AND AIR LEAKS | JONES, DIANA S | — |
| 18374019 | METHODS FOR TREATING LEAKAGE FROM A GASTROINTESTINAL SITE | SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17816811 | SYSTEMS, KITS, AND METHODS FOR COATING SUTURES WITH MEDICINAL COMPOUNDS IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO SUTURE IMPLANTATION | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 46d overdue |
| 17573574 | BIOCOMPATIBLE, FLEXIBLE, HAEMOSTATIC SHEET | LIU, TRACY | 31d overdue |
| 17708570 | Sutures with External Filament Containing A Medicant | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 25d overdue |
| 18757997 | SURGICAL CLIP REQUIRING MINIMAL CLOSURE FORCE | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 8d |
| 17319805 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR NAVIGATING A TISSUE RESECTION DEVICE | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 34d |
| 19014719 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR RECONSTITUTING THERAPEUTIC POWDERS, MIXING PRECURSOR SOLUTIONS, AND EXPRESSING SEALANTS FOR CONTROLLING BLEEDING AND SEALING FLUID AND AIR LEAKS | JONES, DIANA S | — |
| 18838104 | SINGLE BARRIER FOLDER SUTURE PACKAGE | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | — |
| 18374019 | METHODS FOR TREATING LEAKAGE FROM A GASTROINTESTINAL SITE | SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 3 |
| 1618 | 2 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19014719 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR RECONSTITUTING THERAPEUTIC POWDERS, MIXING PRECURSOR SOLUTIONS, AND EXPRESSING SEALANTS FOR CONTROLLING BLEEDING AND SEALING FLUID AND AIR LEAKS | JONES, DIANA S | 3775 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18838104 | SINGLE BARRIER FOLDER SUTURE PACKAGE | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18757997 | SURGICAL CLIP REQUIRING MINIMAL CLOSURE FORCE | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18374019 | METHODS FOR TREATING LEAKAGE FROM A GASTROINTESTINAL SITE | SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H | 1618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 17816811 | SYSTEMS, KITS, AND METHODS FOR COATING SUTURES WITH MEDICINAL COMPOUNDS IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO SUTURE IMPLANTATION | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2022 |
| 17708570 | Sutures with External Filament Containing A Medicant | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Mar 30, 2022 |
| 17667787 | Two Component Sealing Systems Including Synthetic Matrices and Biosynthetic Adhesives | SCHLIENTZ, LEAH H | 1618 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2022 |
| 17573574 | BIOCOMPATIBLE, FLEXIBLE, HAEMOSTATIC SHEET | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 11, 2022 |
| 17319805 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR NAVIGATING A TISSUE RESECTION DEVICE | STUMPFOLL, DANA LYNN | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | May 13, 2021 |
| 17053409 | BIOSCAFFOLD COMPOSITIONS OF MATTER | WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2020 |
| 17128576 | CONTROLLING AN ULTRASONIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT ACCORDING TO TISSUE LOCATION | COLLINS, SEAN W | 3794 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2020 |
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