Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (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. 8 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. 8 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 | 5 (62%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 1 | 64.1% | +30.1% |
| MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 1 | 57.3% | +51.7% |
| ZONG, HELEN | 1 | 79.2% | +8.2% |
| COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 1 | 68.9% | +32.2% |
| PRICE, NATHAN R | 1 | 52.4% | +39.6% |
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 70.5% | +26.4% |
| KLEIN, BROOKE L | 1 | 51.5% | +54.1% |
| PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 1 | 46.5% | +18.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17000965 | IMPLANT HOLDER | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 603d overdue |
| 18152468 | ARTHROSCOPIC PUMP SALINE MANAGEMENT | PRICE, NATHAN R | 38d overdue |
| 17935192 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GUIDING A SURGICAL ACCESS DEVICE | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 11d overdue |
| 18529741 | KNOTLESS ANCHOR INSERTION | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 5d |
| 18087471 | PATIENT-MOUNTED SURGICAL RETRACTOR | SIPP, AMY R. | 5d |
| 18466192 | MODULAR CONNECTOR ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF USE | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 12d |
| 18927316 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR LOCALIZED TRACKING OF A VERTEBRAL BODY OR OTHER ANATOMIC STRUCTURE | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18927316 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR LOCALIZED TRACKING OF A VERTEBRAL BODY OR OTHER ANATOMIC STRUCTURE | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 3797 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18529741 | KNOTLESS ANCHOR INSERTION | MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18371712 | NEUROMAPPING SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES | ZONG, HELEN | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18466192 | MODULAR CONNECTOR ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF USE | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18152468 | ARTHROSCOPIC PUMP SALINE MANAGEMENT | PRICE, NATHAN R | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 18087471 | PATIENT-MOUNTED SURGICAL RETRACTOR | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
| 17935192 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GUIDING A SURGICAL ACCESS DEVICE | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
| 17000965 | IMPLANT HOLDER | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 603d overdue | Pending | Aug 24, 2020 |
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