Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 6 (60%) |
| §112 only | 2 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HODGE, LINDA J | 2 | 87.1% | +27.5% |
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.0% | +20.9% |
| HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 1 | 49.1% | +54.4% |
| WEISS, JESSICA | 1 | 81.0% | +33.4% |
| POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 1 | 58.8% | +33.8% |
| STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 1 | 66.7% | -6.7% |
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 1 | 74.0% | +56.7% |
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 1 | 73.0% | +11.1% |
| BYRD, BRIGID K | 1 | 70.6% | +50.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210381 | END TOOL OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT COMPRISING SAME | HODGE, LINDA J | 24d overdue |
| 19007903 | END TOOL AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | HODGE, LINDA J | 1d overdue |
| 18955807 | END TOOL AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | WEISS, JESSICA | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19073000 | END TOOL OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, CARTRIDGE, SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 36d overdue |
| 19210381 | END TOOL OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT COMPRISING SAME | HODGE, LINDA J | 24d overdue |
| 18764908 | END TOOL, CARTRIDGE, SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND OPERATING METHOD OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 17d overdue |
| 18416658 | JAW CLOSURE TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS | BYRD, BRIGID K | 9d overdue |
| 19007903 | END TOOL AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | HODGE, LINDA J | 1d overdue |
| 18751163 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT FOR ELECTROCAUTERY | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 28d |
| 18934829 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 40d |
| 18969111 | METHODS OF SMOOTHLY ARTICULATING MEDICAL DEVICES HAVING MULTI-CLUSTER JOINTS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 4 |
| 3771 | 3 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19210381 | END TOOL OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT COMPRISING SAME | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19073000 | END TOOL OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, CARTRIDGE, SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19007903 | END TOOL AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18969111 | METHODS OF SMOOTHLY ARTICULATING MEDICAL DEVICES HAVING MULTI-CLUSTER JOINTS | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 3771 | Other | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18955807 | END TOOL AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | WEISS, JESSICA | 3775 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18934829 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18884503 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING COORDINATE SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION INFORMATION, AND ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18764908 | END TOOL, CARTRIDGE, SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND OPERATING METHOD OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18751163 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT FOR ELECTROCAUTERY | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18416658 | JAW CLOSURE TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS | BYRD, BRIGID K | 3771 | Other | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
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