Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
PROCEPT BioRobotics Corporation has 13 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These applications are spread across 12 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units, showing significant diversification in the prosecution process. ROANE, AARON F is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 2 pending office actions.
This indicates that most of the 12 distinct examiners are handling only a single matter for the company, reflecting a decentralized workload. With 13 pending office actions in total, the company's matters are reviewed across 8 distinct art units, with the busiest examiner managing only 2 of the active cases.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (31%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (15%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROANE, AARON F | 2 | 73.4% | +9.7% |
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 1 | 72.7% | +12.4% |
| ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 48.3% | +58.1% |
| VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | 1 | 47.8% | +43.0% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1 | 65.6% | +27.7% |
| CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 1 | 71.1% | +49.0% |
| SAHAND, SANA | 1 | 63.4% | +23.8% |
| COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 47.5% | +26.6% |
| ZHANG, LEI | 1 | 15.4% | +100.0% |
| HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | 1 | 67.6% | +28.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539048 | USER INTERFACE FOR SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | ZHANG, LEI | 17d overdue |
| 18861781 | ULTRASONIC ROD PROBE | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 9d |
| 18990234 | TISSUE RESECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CUTTING PARAMETER | VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | — |
| 18822884 | STIFF SHEATH FOR IMAGING PROBE | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | — |
| 17456108 | STIFF SHEATH FOR IMAGE GUIDED TISSUE RESECTION | DELLA, JAYMI E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539048 | USER INTERFACE FOR SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | ZHANG, LEI | 17d overdue |
| 18805972 | STEP-BASED SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SURGICAL INTRAOPERATIVE CUES | SAHAND, SANA | 1d overdue |
| 18861781 | ULTRASONIC ROD PROBE | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 9d |
| 18787392 | ROBOTIC ARMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE RESECTION AND IMAGING | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 19d |
| 19455536 | PHYSICIAN CONTROLLED TISSUE RESECTION INTEGRATED WITH TREATMENT MAPPING OF TARGET ORGAN IMAGES | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | — |
| 18990234 | TISSUE RESECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CUTTING PARAMETER | VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | — |
| 18907991 | PUMP CARTRIDGE AND CONSOLE | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | — |
| 18822884 | STIFF SHEATH FOR IMAGING PROBE | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 3 |
| 3794 | 2 |
| 3797 | 2 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19455536 | PHYSICIAN CONTROLLED TISSUE RESECTION INTEGRATED WITH TREATMENT MAPPING OF TARGET ORGAN IMAGES | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2026 |
| 18861781 | ULTRASONIC ROD PROBE | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 18990234 | TISSUE RESECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CUTTING PARAMETER | VIRK, ADIL PARTAP S | 3798 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18955657 | SURGICAL SYSTEM WITH OFFSET ENERGY SOURCE | ROANE, AARON F | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18907991 | PUMP CARTRIDGE AND CONSOLE | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 3762 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18822884 | STIFF SHEATH FOR IMAGING PROBE | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18805972 | STEP-BASED SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SURGICAL INTRAOPERATIVE CUES | SAHAND, SANA | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18787392 | ROBOTIC ARMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE RESECTION AND IMAGING | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18539048 | USER INTERFACE FOR SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18523542 | INTEGRATION OF ROBOTIC ARMS WITH SURGICAL PROCEDURES | HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | 3799 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18163197 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING AND TREATMENT PLANNING | ROANE, AARON F | 3792 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
| 17456108 | STIFF SHEATH FOR IMAGE GUIDED TISSUE RESECTION | DELLA, JAYMI E | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2021 |
| 16376738 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE SYSTEMS WITH EXPANDABLE SUPPORT AND PROXIMAL OPENING FOR HEMOSTASIS IN A BLEEDING CLOSED TISSUE VOLUME | FREHE, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103DPOther | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2019 |
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