Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 5 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Livsmed Inc. currently has 11 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, showing a concentration of the company's current USPTO activity in a few specialized sections. The prosecution is handled by 11 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending action is currently assigned to a different individual.
The busiest examiner, OH, HARRY Y, has only 1 pending office action, which reflects the broader trend of one examiner per action across the 11 pending matters. This lack of examiner overlap suggests that Livsmed cannot leverage a single examiner's history to predict the outcomes of multiple pending cases. Each of the 11 distinct examiners will bring a unique perspective to the 11 pending office actions.
With 4 distinct art units involved, the portfolio is spread across multiple technical domains within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The fact that the busiest examiner, OH, HARRY Y, holds only 1 pending action emphasizes the decentralized nature of the company's current prosecution. This requires the legal team to manage 11 separate examiner relationships simultaneously to resolve the 11 pending actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 3 (25%) |
| §102 only | 2 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OH, HARRY Y | 1 | 85.2% | +17.0% |
| LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | 1 | 72.7% | +15.7% |
| KHAYER, SOHANA T | 1 | 81.9% | +18.7% |
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 68.5% | +15.9% |
| TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | 1 | 62.9% | +50.0% |
| WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | 1 | 55.6% | +46.6% |
| CLARK, RYAN T | 1 | 50.4% | +18.2% |
| SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 1 | 58.1% | +58.1% |
| STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 1 | 66.7% | -4.0% |
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 1 | 74.2% | +57.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18764908 | END TOOL, CARTRIDGE, SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND OPERATING METHOD OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 17d overdue |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18764908 | END TOOL, CARTRIDGE, SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND OPERATING METHOD OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 17d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18890197 | END TOOL OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND ELECTRIC CAUTERIZATION SURGICAL INSTRUMENT COMPRISING SAME | CLARK, RYAN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 19175396 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | LABRANCHE, BROOKE N | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19096013 | APPARATUS FOR DRIVING SURGICAL ROBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | KHAYER, SOHANA T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19082699 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19016159 | OPERATION PART FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND ELECTROCAUTERY SURGICAL INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED WITH OPERATION PART | TEMPLETON, MARINA DELANEY | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 19003074 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | WELCH, WILLOW GRACE | — | §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 | — | §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 |
| 18764908 | END TOOL, CARTRIDGE, SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, AND OPERATING METHOD OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18751163 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT FOR ELECTROCAUTERY | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18750622 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | GHIMIRE, SHANKAR RAJ | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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