Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Intellijoint Surgical Inc. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, indicating a highly individualized prosecution environment where each pending matter is handled by a different official. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, which suggests a focused but not singular examination path for their mechanical and medical innovations. This distribution requires the company to manage different examiner styles across separate technical groups within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is JOHNSON, GERALD, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner handles only a small portion of the total pending actions, the company faces a broad distribution of examiner perspectives rather than a concentrated bottleneck. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback across the 2 art units involved in these proceedings. The presence of distinct examiners for each action means that pending cases are currently being reviewed by different people, necessitating a case by case approach to prosecution.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, GERALD | 1 | 78.6% | +9.4% |
| CWERN, JONATHAN | 1 | 50.9% | +33.3% |
| KISH, JAMES M | 1 | 62.4% | +11.8% |
| WHALEY, PABLO S | 1 | 25.1% | +21.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19072259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION, INCLUDING IMAGE-GUIDED NAVIGATION OF A PATIENT'S HEAD | CWERN, JONATHAN | — |
| 18617347 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION AND INTRA-OPERATIVE SURGICAL PLANNING IN JOINT ARTHROPLASTY PROCEDURES USING PLANAR AND NON-PLANAR PROFILES | KISH, JAMES M | — |
| 18020158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCEDURE PLANNING USING PREHABILITATION INPUT | WHALEY, PABLO 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19072259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION, INCLUDING IMAGE-GUIDED NAVIGATION OF A PATIENT'S HEAD | CWERN, JONATHAN | — |
| 18617347 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION AND INTRA-OPERATIVE SURGICAL PLANNING IN JOINT ARTHROPLASTY PROCEDURES USING PLANAR AND NON-PLANAR PROFILES | KISH, JAMES M | — |
| 18020158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCEDURE PLANNING USING PREHABILITATION INPUT | WHALEY, PABLO S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19275258 | ACTIVE TARGETS FOR TRACKING, AND METHODS FOR ASSEMBLING AND USING THE SAME | JOHNSON, GERALD | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19072259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION, INCLUDING IMAGE-GUIDED NAVIGATION OF A PATIENT'S HEAD | CWERN, JONATHAN | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18617347 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION AND INTRA-OPERATIVE SURGICAL PLANNING IN JOINT ARTHROPLASTY PROCEDURES USING PLANAR AND NON-PLANAR PROFILES | KISH, JAMES M | 3792 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18020158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCEDURE PLANNING USING PREHABILITATION INPUT | WHALEY, PABLO S | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
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