Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mazor Robotics Ltd. currently manages 15 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These active cases are handled by 15 distinct examiners across 10 distinct art units. This exact match between the number of pending actions and the number of examiners indicates that every single application is being reviewed by a different person.
JONES, DIANA S is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 15 pending office actions and 15 distinct examiners, no individual examiner holds more than one case. This total lack of examiner overlap requires a prosecution strategy tailored to 15 different individual perspectives.
The 10 distinct art units involved show that Mazor Robotics Ltd. has a broad reach within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, touching many different specialized groups. With 15 pending office actions spread so thinly across examiners and art units, practitioners cannot rely on building a rapport with a single primary examiner for this portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (15%) |
| §103 only | 4 (31%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, DIANA S | 1 | 75.1% | +20.2% |
| ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 65.4% | +26.7% |
| AZHAR, ARSLAN | 1 | 78.8% | +19.6% |
| MARC, MCDIEUNEL | 1 | 90.9% | +7.6% |
| ROY, BAISAKHI | 1 | 77.7% | +18.7% |
| WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 1 | 86.2% | +9.3% |
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.7% | +29.9% |
| NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 1 | 45.7% | +43.9% |
| KIKNADZE, IRAKLI | 1 | 89.1% | +7.9% |
| JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 1 | 87.4% | +7.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19178531 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING ANATOMICAL MOTION | MARC, MCDIEUNEL | — |
| 18990247 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PLANNING A SURGICAL PROCEDURE | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | — |
| 18662123 | SURGICAL DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS INCLUDING ADAPTIVE CONTROL | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253071 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND USING AN IMPLANT PLAN EVALUATION MODEL | JONES, DIANA S | — |
| 19196037 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC COLLISION AVOIDANCE USING MEDICAL IMAGING | AZHAR, ARSLAN | — |
| 18850136 | UNIVERSAL ADAPTOR FOR AN IMAGING DEVICE AND CORRECTOR ASSEMBLY | KIKNADZE, IRAKLI | — |
| 18566696 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND MONITORING A DRAPE CONFIGURATION | WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18930754 | INTERBODY TOOL, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 46d |
| 19253071 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND USING AN IMPLANT PLAN EVALUATION MODEL | JONES, DIANA S | — |
| 19251512 | AUTOMATIC ROBOTIC PROCEDURE FOR SKIN CUTTING, TISSUE PATHWAY, AND DILATION CREATION | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | — |
| 19196037 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC COLLISION AVOIDANCE USING MEDICAL IMAGING | AZHAR, ARSLAN | — |
| 19019223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING AN IMAGING DEVICE | ROY, BAISAKHI | — |
| 18894396 | DEVICE FOR IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF MANUAL OPERATIONS | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 3 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19253071 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING AND USING AN IMPLANT PLAN EVALUATION MODEL | JONES, DIANA S | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19251512 | AUTOMATIC ROBOTIC PROCEDURE FOR SKIN CUTTING, TISSUE PATHWAY, AND DILATION CREATION | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 19196037 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC COLLISION AVOIDANCE USING MEDICAL IMAGING | AZHAR, ARSLAN | — | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19178531 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING ANATOMICAL MOTION | MARC, MCDIEUNEL | 3656 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19019223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING AN IMAGING DEVICE | ROY, BAISAKHI | 3797 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18990247 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PLANNING A SURGICAL PROCEDURE | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18930754 | INTERBODY TOOL, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18894396 | DEVICE FOR IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF MANUAL OPERATIONS | NGUYEN, HUONG Q | 3791 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18850136 | UNIVERSAL ADAPTOR FOR AN IMAGING DEVICE AND CORRECTOR ASSEMBLY | KIKNADZE, IRAKLI | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18662123 | SURGICAL DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS INCLUDING ADAPTIVE CONTROL | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18566696 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND MONITORING A DRAPE CONFIGURATION | WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | 3656 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 17590961 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC ARM | ABUELHAWA, MOHAMMED YOUSEF | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 307d overdue | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
| 17575320 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROD INSERTION PLANNING AND ROD INSERTION | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2022 |
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