Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
SurGenTec, LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each of the company's current pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual in a different technical group.
COUGHLIN, DANIEL F is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Each of the 3 pending actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit, indicating no concentration in the current prosecution. For a practitioner, this means that the company's mechanical engineering innovations are technically diverse enough to trigger reviews from 3 different units within the patent office. With 3 distinct examiners involved, the company's current prosecution experience is not concentrated with any single individual. This requires a strategy that can account for the different perspectives of 3 examiners and the specific requirements of 3 different art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1 | 39.0% | +18.6% |
| YANG, ANDREW | 1 | 84.3% | +10.5% |
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 1 | 16.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18950893 | BONE GRAFT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | YANG, ANDREW | 28d |
| 18079710 | SACROILIAC JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18950893 | BONE GRAFT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | YANG, ANDREW | 28d |
| 19047054 | SYNTHETIC BONE GRAFT AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1619 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047054 | SYNTHETIC BONE GRAFT AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18950893 | BONE GRAFT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18079710 | SACROILIAC JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
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