Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 8 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
Livsmed Inc. has 15 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio spans 15 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units. Examiner assignments are fully dispersed, while the lower art-unit figure indicates recurring activity within several units. Counsel should use centralized tracking for the broad examiner spread and preserve unit-specific knowledge for repeated assignments.
GERTH, KATIE L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner dominates the docket. A common technical narrative may support consistency across matters, but claim amendments and prior-art responses should be tailored to each examiner’s record.
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 | 3 (21%) |
| §102 only | 2 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GERTH, KATIE L | 1 | 75.8% | +16.6% |
| MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 1 | 53.7% | +75.5% |
| OH, HARRY Y | 1 | 85.4% | +16.7% |
| ROANE, AARON F | 1 | 73.4% | +9.8% |
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.1% | +17.0% |
| KHAYER, SOHANA T | 1 | 82.1% | +18.3% |
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.9% | +15.0% |
| LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 1 | 53.3% | +21.5% |
| TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 1 | 63.9% | +48.1% |
| WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 1 | 55.6% | +46.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19237895 | END TOOL AND SHAFT ASSEMBLY | GERTH, KATIE L | — |
| 19229678 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | — |
| 19219109 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING COLLISION OF SURGICAL ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR | OH, HARRY Y | — |
| 19096013 | APPARATUS FOR DRIVING SURGICAL ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | KHAYER, SOHANA T | — |
| 19082699 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | — |
| 19016159 | OPERATION PART FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND ELECTROCAUTERY SURGICAL INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED WITH OPERATION PART | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | — |
| 19003074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19237895 | END TOOL AND SHAFT ASSEMBLY | GERTH, KATIE L | — |
| 19229678 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | — |
| 19219109 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING COLLISION OF SURGICAL ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR | OH, HARRY Y | — |
| 19175396 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — |
| 19096013 | APPARATUS FOR DRIVING SURGICAL ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | KHAYER, SOHANA T | — |
| 19082699 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | — |
| 19016698 | MANIPULATION PART OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | — |
| 19016159 | OPERATION PART FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND ELECTROCAUTERY SURGICAL INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED WITH OPERATION PART | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 4 |
| 3792 | 3 |
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19237895 | END TOOL AND SHAFT ASSEMBLY | GERTH, KATIE L | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19229678 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | MOSSBROOK, WILLIAM ERIC | 3794 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19219109 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING COLLISION OF SURGICAL ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR | OH, HARRY Y | 3656 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19177521 | END TOOL OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT COMPRISING SAME | ROANE, AARON F | 3792 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2025 |
| 19175396 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 3771 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19096013 | APPARATUS FOR DRIVING SURGICAL ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | KHAYER, SOHANA T | 3657 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19082699 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19016698 | MANIPULATION PART OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19016159 | OPERATION PART FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND ELECTROCAUTERY SURGICAL INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED WITH OPERATION PART | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19003074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 3792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18890197 | END TOOL OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND ELECTRIC CAUTERIZATION SURGICAL INSTRUMENT COMPRISING SAME | CLARK, RYAN T | 3794 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18889261 | LOCKING APPARATUS | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18884503 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING COORDINATE SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION INFORMATION, AND ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 57d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18750622 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | 3795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLivsmed Inc. has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 14 examiners.
Katie L Gerth has the most, with 1 of Livsmed Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
