Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kaliber Labs Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across multiple examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a highly fragmented prosecution landscape where each matter is handled by a different specialized unit. This distribution suggests that the company's legal strategy must account for the specific preferences of multiple examiners rather than focusing on a single point of contact within the USPTO.
ALICIA HA is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though she is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This level of dispersion across the portfolio means that the company must prepare technical arguments that satisfy the specific requirements of various examination groups. The fact that multiple examiners are involved in the pending office actions highlights a lack of examiner overlap, which may require more resources to manage individual examiner relationships and distinct prosecution histories for each application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HA, ALICIA | 1 | 88.9% | +12.7% |
| RASNIC, HUNTER J | 1 | 11.2% | +22.4% |
| SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | 1 | 71.4% | +32.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878669 | SURGICAL ANALYTICS AND TOOLS | HA, ALICIA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18745993 | BACK TABLE OPTIMIZATION USING REAL TIME SURGICAL ACTIVITY RECOGNITION | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 30d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18745993 | BACK TABLE OPTIMIZATION USING REAL TIME SURGICAL ACTIVITY RECOGNITION | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 30d overdue |
| 18003311 | PROBES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANDMARK OR FIDUCIAL PLACEMENT IN MEDICAL IMAGES | SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | 15d |
| 18878669 | SURGICAL ANALYTICS AND TOOLS | HA, ALICIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 1 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| 2667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18878669 | SURGICAL ANALYTICS AND TOOLS | HA, ALICIA | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18745993 | BACK TABLE OPTIMIZATION USING REAL TIME SURGICAL ACTIVITY RECOGNITION | RASNIC, HUNTER J | 3684 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18003311 | PROBES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANDMARK OR FIDUCIAL PLACEMENT IN MEDICAL IMAGES | SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | 2667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
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