Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
SurgVision GmbH has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This structure indicates that each pending case is being evaluated independently by a different examiner in a unique administrative environment. Such a distribution suggests that the company's patent applications cover a variety of distinct technical subjects within the chemistry field.
HIGGINS, GERARD T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions in total, each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for a single matter. The fact that there are 3 distinct art units involved means the company must manage three separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. This decentralized approach requires the company to be prepared for different examination styles and art unit standards across its entire active portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
| VU, JAKE MINH | 1 | 41.0% | +27.0% |
| ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | 1 | 50.0% | +7.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565852 | STABLE LIQUID PHANTOM FOR NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENCE VERIFICATION | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| 18267590 | PH RESPONSIVE CYANINE DYES AND CONJUGATES THEREOF | VU, JAKE MINH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565852 | STABLE LIQUID PHANTOM FOR NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENCE VERIFICATION | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| 18267590 | PH RESPONSIVE CYANINE DYES AND CONJUGATES THEREOF | VU, JAKE MINH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18565852 | STABLE LIQUID PHANTOM FOR NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENCE VERIFICATION | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18267590 | PH RESPONSIVE CYANINE DYES AND CONJUGATES THEREOF | VU, JAKE MINH | 1618 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18018161 | PROCESSING OF MULTIPLE LUMINESCENCE IMAGES GLOBALLY FOR THEIR MAPPING AND/OR SEGMENTATION | ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | 2666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSurgVision GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Gerard T Higgins has the most, with 1 of SurgVision GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
