Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 1 | 72.0% | +16.2% |
| GANNON, LEVI | 1 | 82.6% | +6.8% |
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.4% | +73.7% |
| SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 1 | 73.8% | +28.5% |
| SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 1 | 5.6% | +50.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690869 | SURGICAL ROBOT AND POWER SUPPLY PROTECTION CIRCUIT THEREOF | GANNON, LEVI | 16d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18003933 | SURGICAL ROBOTIC ARM, FLEXIBLE ARM AND FLEXIBLE JOINT | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 5d 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698847 | SURGICAL ROBOT, AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, POWER SUPPLY PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND MEDIUM THEREOF | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 17d overdue |
| 18003933 | SURGICAL ROBOTIC ARM, FLEXIBLE ARM AND FLEXIBLE JOINT | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 5d overdue |
| 18571519 | CLEAN ROOM MODULE | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 20d |
| 18687902 | FLEXIBLE JOINT, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND BENDING SECTION FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18698847 | SURGICAL ROBOT, AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, POWER SUPPLY PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND MEDIUM THEREOF | ZARROLI, MICHAEL C | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18690869 | SURGICAL ROBOT AND POWER SUPPLY PROTECTION CIRCUIT THEREOF | GANNON, LEVI | 2849 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18687902 | FLEXIBLE JOINT, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND BENDING SECTION FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18571519 | CLEAN ROOM MODULE | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18003933 | SURGICAL ROBOTIC ARM, FLEXIBLE ARM AND FLEXIBLE JOINT | SCHMITT, BENJAMIN ALLYN | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
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