Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Roen Surgical Inc. has 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This suggests a level of concentration within specific technical groups at the patent office, as the 7 actions are funneled into only 3 units.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. Because there are 7 total actions and 6 distinct examiners, most examiners are only reviewing a single application for the company at this time. The fact that 6 distinct examiners are working across only 3 distinct art units means that the company is frequently dealing with multiple examiners within the same unit. This requires a prosecution approach that can handle different examiner styles even when the technical subject matter is closely related within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 2 | 58.1% | +58.1% |
| ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 1 | 76.0% | +11.9% |
| BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 75.7% | +9.9% |
| RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 1 | 76.3% | +12.0% |
| WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | 1 | 74.1% | +23.3% |
| CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 1 | 59.6% | +27.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17621558 | Slave Device and Control Method Therefor, and Eye Surgery Device and Control Method Therefor | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 49d overdue |
| 18293644 | DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING MOVEMENT DISTANCE OF REMOTE SURGERY END EFFECTOR, AND METHOD THEREFOR | WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | 15d overdue |
| 18880828 | ENDOSCOPE DRIVING ASSEMBLY | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | — |
| 18706723 | ARTICULATION APPARATUS FOR ROBOTIC SURGICAL TOOL | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18384735 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS HOLDING APPARATUS | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 73d overdue |
| 17621558 | Slave Device and Control Method Therefor, and Eye Surgery Device and Control Method Therefor | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 49d overdue |
| 18293644 | DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING MOVEMENT DISTANCE OF REMOTE SURGERY END EFFECTOR, AND METHOD THEREFOR | WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | 15d overdue |
| 18880828 | ENDOSCOPE DRIVING ASSEMBLY | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | — |
| 18709680 | DOUBLE DELTA STRUCTURE OF SURGICAL ROBOT | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | — |
| 18706723 | ARTICULATION APPARATUS FOR ROBOTIC SURGICAL TOOL | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 3 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880828 | ENDOSCOPE DRIVING ASSEMBLY | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18979525 | COLON LINEARIZING DEVICE, COLON LINEARIZING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE COLON LINEARIZING DEVICE | BOICE, JAMES EDWARD | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18709680 | DOUBLE DELTA STRUCTURE OF SURGICAL ROBOT | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18706723 | ARTICULATION APPARATUS FOR ROBOTIC SURGICAL TOOL | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 3618 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18293644 | DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING MOVEMENT DISTANCE OF REMOTE SURGERY END EFFECTOR, AND METHOD THEREFOR | WATTS III, JAMES MILLER | 3657 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18384735 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS HOLDING APPARATUS | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 17621558 | Slave Device and Control Method Therefor, and Eye Surgery Device and Control Method Therefor | CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY | 3792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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