Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ronovo (Shanghai) Medical Science And Technology Ltd. is managing 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Each of these 3 actions is assigned to a different examiner, resulting in 3 distinct examiners for the portfolio. This distribution between actions and examiners suggests a diverse set of perspectives during prosecution. Furthermore, the workload is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the technology spans multiple specialized groups within the USPTO.
ESTEVEZ, DAIRON is identified as the busiest examiner, although they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for the actions, no single individual holds a majority of the pending matters. This distribution across 3 distinct art units and the distinct examiners requires the applicant to navigate various examination styles simultaneously. The pending office actions represent a broad procedural footprint relative to the total number of matters. This variety across the art units ensures that the pending office actions are evaluated by multiple specialized units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESTEVEZ, DAIRON | 1 | 68.4% | -12.1% |
| JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 1 | 87.4% | +7.0% |
| NGUYEN, LILLIAN T | 1 | 84.0% | +14.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838276 | SURGICAL PLATFORM POSITIONING SYSTEM, POSE INFORMATION DETERMINING METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720019 | DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM REGULATING MECHANISM AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | NGUYEN, LILLIAN T | 26d |
| 18877445 | ROBOTIC ARM ADJUSTMENT METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ESTEVEZ, DAIRON | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720019 | DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM REGULATING MECHANISM AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | NGUYEN, LILLIAN T | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877445 | ROBOTIC ARM ADJUSTMENT METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | ESTEVEZ, DAIRON | 3656 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18838276 | SURGICAL PLATFORM POSITIONING SYSTEM, POSE INFORMATION DETERMINING METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | JOHNSON, NICOLE F | 3796 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18720019 | DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM REGULATING MECHANISM AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | NGUYEN, LILLIAN T | 3655 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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