Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Flex Operating Room Inc.

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Flex Operating Room Inc. has 1 pending office action currently active. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a concentrated prosecution focus for the company's current filings. The busiest examiner identified in the data is ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K, who is overseeing the entirety of the active workload.

With a single pending action in the portfolio, the prosecution is centralized under an individual reviewer. This allows for direct interaction with the examiner without the complexity of managing multiple office actions across different departments. The strategy for this portfolio is entirely dependent on the resolution of the current pending matter.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
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%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% 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.

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

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K 1 32.4% +40.8%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18869909 SURGICAL TRAY EFFICIENCY SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18869909 SURGICAL TRAY EFFICIENCY SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 27, 2024

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