1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Surgical Sensors BV currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. John R Downey is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. The data shows that 0 distinct art units are currently associated with this pending activity. This single pending matter defines the company's current prosecution landscape, as there are no other active office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 60.0% | +23.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919840 | Surgical tool system with a smart screwdriver | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18919840 | Surgical tool system with a smart screwdriver | DOWNEY, JOHN R | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSurgical Sensors BV has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 0 art units and 1 examiners.
John R Downey has the most, with 1 of Surgical Sensors BV's pending office actions.
