Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Forsight Robotics Ltd. currently has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that while the company is dealing with several different examiners, the technical scope is limited to 2 specific art units.
JOHNS, HILARY LYNN is the busiest examiner, though she is responsible for only 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for the active matters, the workload is perfectly balanced. No single examiner has more influence than another over the current pending portfolio.
The 2 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications are being reviewed in different technical sections. Practitioners should coordinate their efforts across these art units while managing the 4 distinct examiners. This distribution of 4 pending office actions provides a diverse set of examiner interactions for the company, with 1 examiner assigned per case.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNS, HILARY LYNN | 1 | 81.9% | +15.8% |
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.5% | +15.9% |
| IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 1 | 78.6% | +39.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17818477 | CONTROL COMPONENT FOR A MICROSURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 70d |
| 18825382 | RETRACTABLE WHEELS FOR ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEM | JOHNS, HILARY LYNN | — |
| 18714024 | TOOLS FOR MICROSURGICAL PROCEDURES | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17818477 | CONTROL COMPONENT FOR A MICROSURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 70d |
| 18825382 | RETRACTABLE WHEELS FOR ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEM | JOHNS, HILARY LYNN | — |
| 18714024 | TOOLS FOR MICROSURGICAL PROCEDURES | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18825382 | RETRACTABLE WHEELS FOR ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEM | JOHNS, HILARY LYNN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18714024 | TOOLS FOR MICROSURGICAL PROCEDURES | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 17818477 | CONTROL COMPONENT FOR A MICROSURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Aug 09, 2022 |
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