Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kb Medical SA operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and currently has 4 pending office actions. These 4 actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners. All 4 actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a high degree of technical concentration.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WOODALL, NICHOLAS W, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 actions, the workload is evenly split. The fact that all 4 pending office actions are in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's medical device innovations are focused on a specific technical field. This allows the company to interact with 4 different examiners who are all part of the same specialized group at the patent office, which may lead to more consistent technical feedback across the 4 pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 1 | 82.0% | +13.3% |
| JONES, DIANA S | 1 | 75.1% | +20.2% |
| AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH | 1 | 81.1% | +13.7% |
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 1 | 70.1% | +24.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19214309 | ROBOT ASSISTED VOLUME REMOVAL DURING SURGERY | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | — |
| 18966794 | ROBOTIC NAVIGATION OF ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEMS | AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18483634 | ROBOTIC NAVIGATION OF ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEMS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 22d |
| 19214309 | ROBOT ASSISTED VOLUME REMOVAL DURING SURGERY | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | — |
| 19198292 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PRECISE GUIDANCE OF SURGICAL TOOLS | JONES, DIANA S | — |
| 18966794 | ROBOTIC NAVIGATION OF ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEMS | AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19214309 | ROBOT ASSISTED VOLUME REMOVAL DURING SURGERY | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19198292 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PRECISE GUIDANCE OF SURGICAL TOOLS | JONES, DIANA S | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 18966794 | ROBOTIC NAVIGATION OF ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEMS | AZIMA, SHAGHAYEGH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18483634 | ROBOTIC NAVIGATION OF ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEMS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
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