3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 1 | 76.4% | +18.9% |
| SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 1 | 78.5% | +21.9% |
| CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 1 | 58.7% | +28.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065984 | ONE-OPERATOR SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | — |
| 18946732 | LAPAROSCOPIC GRASPERS AND SYSTEMS THEREFOR | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | — |
| 17701294 | ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF USE | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19065984 | ONE-OPERATOR SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18946732 | LAPAROSCOPIC GRASPERS AND SYSTEMS THEREFOR | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 17701294 | ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF USE | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2022 |
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