Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 59 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 | 7 (64%) |
| §102 only | 3 (27%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, ANDREW | 2 | 84.1% | +10.5% |
| ALBERS, KEVIN S | 1 | 25.0% | +51.0% |
| EMMETT, MADISON B | 1 | 79.8% | +11.0% |
| WEBER, TAMARA L | 1 | 87.1% | +12.1% |
| JEN, MINGJEN | 1 | 80.1% | +13.6% |
| GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 65.4% | +24.2% |
| HONG, THOMAS J | 1 | 49.7% | +47.8% |
| NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 1 | 71.3% | +30.8% |
| BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 1 | 75.7% | +28.8% |
| KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 1 | 58.7% | +36.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769854 | Robotic System For Shoulder Arthroplasty | YANG, ANDREW | 114d overdue |
| 18925136 | Techniques For Detecting Errors Or Loss Of Accuracy In A Surgical Robotic System | JEN, MINGJEN | 5d overdue |
| 18937085 | Robotic Surgical System For Guiding A Reamer Tool | YANG, ANDREW | 28d |
| 18935718 | Systems And Methods For Controlling Movement Of A Surgical Tool Along A Predefined Path | WEBER, TAMARA L | 46d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19018759 | MOTORIZED JOINT POSITIONER | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 78d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769854 | Robotic System For Shoulder Arthroplasty | YANG, ANDREW | 114d overdue |
| 17628249 | Tool Assembly And Methods For Robotic-Assisted Surgery | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 53d overdue |
| 18528839 | Physical Model For Aiding In Surgical Plan Accuracy Assessment | HONG, THOMAS J | 36d overdue |
| 18925136 | Techniques For Detecting Errors Or Loss Of Accuracy In A Surgical Robotic System | JEN, MINGJEN | 5d overdue |
| 18221690 | REGISTRATION TOOLS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 14d |
| 18937085 | Robotic Surgical System For Guiding A Reamer Tool | YANG, ANDREW | 28d |
| 18940482 | System And Method For Generating A Patient-Specific Milling Path | EMMETT, MADISON B | 42d |
| 18935718 | Systems And Methods For Controlling Movement Of A Surgical Tool Along A Predefined Path | WEBER, TAMARA L | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 3 |
| 3657 | 2 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19018759 | MOTORIZED JOINT POSITIONER | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 3786 | DPOther | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18940482 | System And Method For Generating A Patient-Specific Milling Path | EMMETT, MADISON B | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18937085 | Robotic Surgical System For Guiding A Reamer Tool | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18935718 | Systems And Methods For Controlling Movement Of A Surgical Tool Along A Predefined Path | WEBER, TAMARA L | 3667 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18925136 | Techniques For Detecting Errors Or Loss Of Accuracy In A Surgical Robotic System | JEN, MINGJEN | 3657 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18905641 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING HAPTIC GUIDANCE | GAMMON, MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18769854 | Robotic System For Shoulder Arthroplasty | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 114d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18528839 | Physical Model For Aiding In Surgical Plan Accuracy Assessment | HONG, THOMAS J | 3729 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18512400 | SURGICAL SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATED IMPLANT PLANNING | NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18221690 | REGISTRATION TOOLS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 17628249 | Tool Assembly And Methods For Robotic-Assisted Surgery | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2022 |
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