Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Synaptive Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. NEWAY, SAMUEL G is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The company's 2 pending office actions are being reviewed independently by 2 distinct examiners. This work is also spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the matters fall into different specialized categories within the Communications field. No single examiner or art unit is responsible for more than 1 of the pending actions, which provides a degree of diversification for the company.
For the practitioner, the presence of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units means that the prosecution strategy must be adapted to two different sets of expectations. The busiest examiner, NEWAY, SAMUEL G, handles only 1 of the 2 pending office actions, ensuring that the workload is evenly spread. This structure allows the company to pursue multiple technical paths without being overly dependent on a single individual's decision.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWAY, SAMUEL G | 1 | 75.1% | +6.4% |
| KISH, JAMES M | 1 | 62.4% | +11.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18471682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS | KISH, JAMES M | 63d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18471682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS | KISH, JAMES M | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2657 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18622069 | VOICE-NUDGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDS-FREE MOVEMENT OF A ROBOTIC SURGICAL MICROSCOPE | NEWAY, SAMUEL G | 2657 | §112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18471682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS | KISH, JAMES M | 3792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSynaptive Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Samuel G Neway has the most, with 1 of Synaptive Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
