Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 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. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 2 (14%) |
| §103 only | 10 (71%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 2 | 70.9% | +39.3% |
| DAVIS, AMELIE R | 1 | 64.3% | +34.9% |
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.6% | +29.9% |
| RODIN, MARIO ANTHONY | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 1 | 86.4% | -8.5% |
| MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE | 1 | 78.4% | +10.1% |
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 1 | 61.1% | +33.3% |
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 1 | 52.6% | +40.2% |
| TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | 1 | 67.5% | +21.6% |
| ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 1 | 81.4% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17590961 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 307d overdue |
| 18540645 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND LOCATING A REGION OF INTEREST | RODIN, MARIO ANTHONY | 31d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17476166 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PLANNING OF INTERBODY INSERTION | MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN | 5d |
| 18244845 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE INTERVERTEBRAL ROD INSERTION | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17590961 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 307d overdue |
| 17590928 | PROTECTION SYSTEMS, ASSEMBLIES, AND DEVICES | TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | 155d overdue |
| 18001838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDEPENDENTLY POSITIONING AN ABLATION TOOL AND IMAGING DEVICE | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 89d overdue |
| 17538985 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTRAOPERATIVE BONE FUSION | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 88d overdue |
| 18184394 | Systems And Methods For An Image Guided Procedure | MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE | 71d overdue |
| 19025579 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGISTERING ONE OR MORE ANATOMICAL ELEMENTS | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 11d overdue |
| 18957288 | SURGICAL FIXATION SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 28d |
| 18930754 | INTERBODY TOOL, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 3 |
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3656 | 2 |
| 2189 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2675 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19025579 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGISTERING ONE OR MORE ANATOMICAL ELEMENTS | DAVIS, AMELIE R | 3798 | Other | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18957288 | SURGICAL FIXATION SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18930754 | INTERBODY TOOL, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18540645 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND LOCATING A REGION OF INTEREST | RODIN, MARIO ANTHONY | 2675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18244845 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE INTERVERTEBRAL ROD INSERTION | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 3773 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18184394 | Systems And Methods For An Image Guided Procedure | MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE | 3792 | §102 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
| 18169069 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID MOTION PLANNING | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 18001838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDEPENDENTLY POSITIONING AN ABLATION TOOL AND IMAGING DEVICE | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 89d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 17590928 | PROTECTION SYSTEMS, ASSEMBLIES, AND DEVICES | TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 155d overdue | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
| 17590961 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 307d overdue | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
| 17590025 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING SURGICAL TOOLS BASED ON BONE DENSITY ESTIMATION | MAPAR, BIJAN | 2189 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Feb 01, 2022 |
| 17538985 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTRAOPERATIVE BONE FUSION | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
| 17476166 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PLANNING OF INTERBODY INSERTION | MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN | 2189 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Sep 15, 2021 |
| 17323408 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) BONE-PROTECTING DRILL GUIDE DEVICE AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING AND USING DEVICE | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2021 |
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