Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 1 | 80.6% | +9.7% |
| GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 1 | 85.5% | +17.0% |
| KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 1 | 58.7% | +37.4% |
| PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 70.8% | +39.6% |
| BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 83.4% | +14.0% |
| CHANG, OLIVIA C | 1 | 84.3% | +13.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202550 | LEVER REDUCER | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | — |
| 18987551 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE INTERBODY FUSION | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18762380 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DISRUPTING INTERVERTEBRAL DISC TISSUE | CHANG, OLIVIA C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19013621 | SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 15d overdue |
| 19197335 | CERVICAL PLATE AND INSERTER | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19013621 | SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 15d overdue |
| 19075582 | MODULAR SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 84d |
| 19197335 | CERVICAL PLATE AND INSERTER | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 18987551 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE INTERBODY FUSION | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18762380 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DISRUPTING INTERVERTEBRAL DISC TISSUE | CHANG, OLIVIA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 2 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202550 | LEVER REDUCER | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | — | §102§103DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19197335 | CERVICAL PLATE AND INSERTER | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19075582 | MODULAR SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 3775 | §102 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19013621 | SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 3773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18987551 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE INTERBODY FUSION | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18762380 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DISRUPTING INTERVERTEBRAL DISC TISSUE | CHANG, OLIVIA C | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
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