Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ix Innovation LLC currently manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 5 pending office actions currently active at the patent office. These 5 pending office actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, which shows that no single examiner is handling multiple active matters for the firm at this time.
The prosecution footprint extends across 5 distinct art units. This ratio between pending office actions, examiners, and art units suggests a diverse set of filings that do not cluster under a single supervisory group. Katherine L Fernandez is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
Practitioners should note that the 5 distinct examiners currently engaged with the portfolio operate independently across their respective 5 distinct art units. This lack of concentration means that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific preferences of each individual examiner rather than a centralized art unit trend. The presence of 1 pending office action for Katherine L Fernandez indicates the limited examiner overlap for the company's current medical and mechanical engineering assets.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 1 | 58.0% | +37.9% |
| COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 1 | 72.2% | +26.0% |
| FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 1 | 27.8% | +40.4% |
| ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 1 | 69.2% | +28.8% |
| TRAN, JENNY NGAN | 1 | 44.4% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19287985 | GUIDING A ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEM TO PERFORM A SURGICAL PROCEDURE | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | — |
| 18886412 | COMPUTERIZED CONTROL AND NAVIGATION OF A ROBOTIC SURGICAL APPARATUS | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18610235 | DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR DEVICE NAVIGATION IN TISSUE | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 43d overdue |
| 18313612 | SYNCHRONIZED PLACEMENT OF SURGICAL IMPLANT HARDWARE | TRAN, JENNY NGAN | 27d |
| 19287985 | GUIDING A ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEM TO PERFORM A SURGICAL PROCEDURE | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | — |
| 19045896 | SURGICAL ROBOT EVOLUTION AND HANDOFF | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | — |
| 18886412 | COMPUTERIZED CONTROL AND NAVIGATION OF A ROBOTIC SURGICAL APPARATUS | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19287985 | GUIDING A ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEM TO PERFORM A SURGICAL PROCEDURE | FERNANDEZ, KATHERINE L | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19045896 | SURGICAL ROBOT EVOLUTION AND HANDOFF | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 3775 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18886412 | COMPUTERIZED CONTROL AND NAVIGATION OF A ROBOTIC SURGICAL APPARATUS | FEDORKY, MEGAN TAYLOR | 3796 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18610235 | DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR DEVICE NAVIGATION IN TISSUE | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 3797 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18313612 | SYNCHRONIZED PLACEMENT OF SURGICAL IMPLANT HARDWARE | TRAN, JENNY NGAN | 2615 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
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