Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
11 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 | 7 (64%) |
| §102 only | 2 (18%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (9%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 74.5% | +17.3% |
| WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 1 | 82.1% | +13.0% |
| SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 1 | 78.5% | +22.0% |
| COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 1 | 86.4% | -8.5% |
| HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 1 | 68.6% | +17.0% |
| OU, JING RUI | 1 | 52.8% | +52.0% |
| ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 1 | 62.2% | +23.2% |
| CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 1 | 63.4% | +21.4% |
| LE, KHOA TAN | 1 | 79.2% | +36.7% |
| RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 1 | 67.9% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18944121 | STERNAL ASCENDER APPARATUS | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 30d overdue |
| 18581457 | SURGICAL RIB RETRACTOR | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 23d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18110743 | NEEDLE DRIVE DEVICE | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 32d overdue |
| 18944121 | STERNAL ASCENDER APPARATUS | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 30d overdue |
| 18416207 | APPARATUS FOR MITRAL VALVE REPAIR AND METHODS THEREOF | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 28d overdue |
| 18386550 | SURGICAL VACUUM DEVICE | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 9d overdue |
| 18405457 | SECURING BIDIRECTIONAL SUTURE LOOPS USING COAXIAL MECHANICAL FASTENERS | OU, JING RUI | 8d overdue |
| 18949012 | SURGICAL ACCESS SYSTEM | LOUIS, RICHARD G | 23d |
| 18521548 | SURGICAL EQUIPMENT HOLDER | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 34d |
| 18126178 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE VAD INSTALLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | LE, KHOA TAN | 50d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 6 |
| 3781 | 2 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18949012 | SURGICAL ACCESS SYSTEM | LOUIS, RICHARD G | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18944121 | STERNAL ASCENDER APPARATUS | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18807319 | SURGICAL SUTURING DEVICE FOR A REPLACEMENT ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE AND METHODS THEREOF | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 3771 | DPOther | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18581457 | SURGICAL RIB RETRACTOR | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 3773 | §102 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18416207 | APPARATUS FOR MITRAL VALVE REPAIR AND METHODS THEREOF | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18405457 | SECURING BIDIRECTIONAL SUTURE LOOPS USING COAXIAL MECHANICAL FASTENERS | OU, JING RUI | 3771 | Other | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18521548 | SURGICAL EQUIPMENT HOLDER | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18386550 | SURGICAL VACUUM DEVICE | CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18126178 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE VAD INSTALLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | LE, KHOA TAN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18110743 | NEEDLE DRIVE DEVICE | RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
| 17121025 | ADJUSTABLE CANNULATION ASSEMBLY AND METHODS THEREOF | STRACHAN, KATE ELIZABETH | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Dec 14, 2020 |
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