Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Riverfield Inc. shows a broad prosecution footprint within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently handling 8 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 8 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is assigned to a different individual. This level of examiner diversity suggests that the company must manage 8 unique sets of examiner behaviors simultaneously.
The portfolio is distributed across 5 distinct art units, reflecting a wide technical range within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL is the busiest examiner for the company, yet he accounts for only 1 busiest examiner pending action. This confirms that the 8 pending office actions are dispersed across the 8 distinct examiners, with no concentration of cases under any single person.
The requirement to interface with 5 distinct art units implies that Riverfield Inc. faces varied examination standards. Because each pending office action involves a different examiner, the company cannot rely on precedent from one case to influence another. Practitioners should prepare for independent negotiations with SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL and the other examiners to resolve the 1 busiest examiner pending action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 3 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | 1 | 50.0% | +100.0% |
| MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 1 | 47.4% | +47.7% |
| SINGH, ESVINDER | 1 | 77.4% | +22.7% |
| JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 1 | 63.1% | +23.0% |
| BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 75.7% | +9.9% |
| TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 1 | 62.3% | +34.3% |
| JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | 1 | 74.3% | +57.6% |
| SAHAND, SANA | 1 | 63.4% | +23.8% |
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 34.0% | +33.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18754328 | SURGERY ASSISTING DEVICE | SINGH, ESVINDER | 7d |
| 18396322 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 9d |
| 18925189 | REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM | MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 19d |
| 18754314 | SURGERY ASSISTING DEVICE | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 22d |
| 18936272 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH FLUSH PORT | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | — |
| 18330710 | FORCEPS DEVICE AND BASE MEMBER | JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18176045 | SURGICAL TOOL | SAHAND, SANA | 15d overdue |
| 18754328 | SURGERY ASSISTING DEVICE | SINGH, ESVINDER | 7d |
| 18396322 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 9d |
| 18925189 | REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM | MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 19d |
| 18754314 | SURGERY ASSISTING DEVICE | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 22d |
| 18936272 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH FLUSH PORT | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | — |
| 18330710 | FORCEPS DEVICE AND BASE MEMBER | JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | — |
| 17890842 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT HOLDING DEVICE AND SURGERY ASSISTING DEVICE | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3796 | 2 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18936272 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH FLUSH PORT | SARCENO ROBLES, CHRISTIAN MANUEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18925189 | REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM | MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 3658 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18754328 | SURGERY ASSISTING DEVICE | SINGH, ESVINDER | 3657 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18754314 | SURGERY ASSISTING DEVICE | JIAN, SHIRLEY XUEYING | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18737492 | DRAPE | BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18396322 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | TON, MARTIN TRUYEN | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18330710 | FORCEPS DEVICE AND BASE MEMBER | JAMIALAHMADI, MAJID | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18176045 | SURGICAL TOOL | SAHAND, SANA | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 17890842 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT HOLDING DEVICE AND SURGERY ASSISTING DEVICE | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 3796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
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