Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 4 (57%) |
| §112 only | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 1 | 58.8% | +33.8% |
| VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 1 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
| SCHWIKER, KATHERINE H | 1 | 66.7% | +35.1% |
| LUAN, SCOTT | 1 | 64.6% | +12.3% |
| OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 1 | 54.9% | +56.3% |
| OH, HARRY Y | 1 | 85.4% | +17.7% |
| MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 1 | 50.8% | +57.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546225 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TELEOPERATION, HAVING A MECHANICALLY UNCONSTRAINED MASTER DEVICE BEING MOVABLE BY AN OPERATOR, WITH CONTROL OF LOCAL REFERENCE COORDINATE FRAMES AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM USING THE METHOD | OH, HARRY Y | 66d overdue |
| 18694702 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ARTICULATED END EFFECTOR ACTUATED BY ONE OR MORE ACTUATION TENDONS OF A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT OF A ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR SURGERY, AND RELATED ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR SURGERY | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 4d 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570380 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A MICROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT OF A TELEOPERATED ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM AND RELATED SYSTEM | LUAN, SCOTT | 114d overdue |
| 18546219 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A LIMITED TELEOPERATION, OVER A SUBSET OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM, OF A MASTER-SLAVE ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TELEOPERATION AND RELATED ROBOTIC SYSTEM | OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 89d overdue |
| 17056341 | STERILE CONSOLE FOR ROBOTIC SURGERY | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 88d overdue |
| 18546225 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TELEOPERATION, HAVING A MECHANICALLY UNCONSTRAINED MASTER DEVICE BEING MOVABLE BY AN OPERATOR, WITH CONTROL OF LOCAL REFERENCE COORDINATE FRAMES AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM USING THE METHOD | OH, HARRY Y | 66d overdue |
| 18694702 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ARTICULATED END EFFECTOR ACTUATED BY ONE OR MORE ACTUATION TENDONS OF A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT OF A ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR SURGERY, AND RELATED ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR SURGERY | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 4d overdue |
| 18570510 | SURGICAL CUTTING INSTRUMENT, ROTATIONAL JOINT AND METHOD, PARTICULARLY FOR ROBOTIC SURGERY AND/OR MICRO-SURGERY | SCHWIKER, KATHERINE H | 14d |
| 18670308 | ROBOTIC MICROSURGERY ASSEMBLY, OPERATING ARENA AND METHOD | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 39d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3792 | 2 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18670308 | ROBOTIC MICROSURGERY ASSEMBLY, OPERATING ARENA AND METHOD | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 3771 | §112 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18694702 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ARTICULATED END EFFECTOR ACTUATED BY ONE OR MORE ACTUATION TENDONS OF A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT OF A ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR SURGERY, AND RELATED ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR SURGERY | VOORHEES, CATHERINE M | 3792 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18570510 | SURGICAL CUTTING INSTRUMENT, ROTATIONAL JOINT AND METHOD, PARTICULARLY FOR ROBOTIC SURGERY AND/OR MICRO-SURGERY | SCHWIKER, KATHERINE H | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18570380 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A MICROSURGICAL INSTRUMENT OF A TELEOPERATED ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM AND RELATED SYSTEM | LUAN, SCOTT | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 114d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18546219 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A LIMITED TELEOPERATION, OVER A SUBSET OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM, OF A MASTER-SLAVE ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TELEOPERATION AND RELATED ROBOTIC SYSTEM | OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 89d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18546225 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TELEOPERATION, HAVING A MECHANICALLY UNCONSTRAINED MASTER DEVICE BEING MOVABLE BY AN OPERATOR, WITH CONTROL OF LOCAL REFERENCE COORDINATE FRAMES AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM USING THE METHOD | OH, HARRY Y | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 17056341 | STERILE CONSOLE FOR ROBOTIC SURGERY | MOHAMMED, SHAHDEEP | 3797 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2020 |
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