Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 9 (69%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (15%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, SEAN W | 1 | 74.0% | +28.2% |
| OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HO, ALLEN C | 1 | 86.8% | +17.7% |
| LAM, ANDREW H | 1 | 84.1% | +7.3% |
| JIA, XIN | 1 | 84.7% | +13.2% |
| DOTTIN, DARRYL V | 1 | 79.0% | +12.3% |
| SONG, HOON K | 1 | 86.1% | +8.4% |
| HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 1 | 64.8% | +22.1% |
| ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 1 | 43.6% | +49.7% |
| MOSHER, ERIC PARKER | 1 | — | — |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694322 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RADIOABLATION TREATMENT AREA TARGETING AND GUIDANCE | JIA, XIN | 28d overdue |
| 18376461 | MULTI-SYSTEM SYNCHRONIZATION FOR OPTICAL SURFACE MONITORING | SONG, HOON K | 17d overdue |
| 18673692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO GUIDE A NEEDLE | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 2d overdue |
| 18694293 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RADIOABLATION TREATMENT AREA TARGETING AND GUIDANCE | LAM, ANDREW H | 2d overdue |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658290 | HIGH DOSE RATE RADIOTHERAPY, SYSTEM AND METHOD | HO, ALLEN C | 44d overdue |
| 18477388 | PORTABLE ABLATION APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 38d overdue |
| 18694322 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RADIOABLATION TREATMENT AREA TARGETING AND GUIDANCE | JIA, XIN | 28d overdue |
| 18778252 | MICROWAVE ABLATION PROBE TIP | COLLINS, SEAN W | 28d |
| 18477374 | MICROWAVE ABLATION PROBE ASSEMBLY AND CABLE STRUCTURE | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 30d |
| 18511326 | MOTION COMPENSATION DURING CARDIAC RADIOABLATION | DOTTIN, DARRYL V | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 3 |
| 3792 | 2 |
| 2884 | 2 |
| 2682 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18778252 | MICROWAVE ABLATION PROBE TIP | COLLINS, SEAN W | 3794 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18673692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO GUIDE A NEEDLE | OKONAK, ELIZABETH LOUISE | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18658290 | HIGH DOSE RATE RADIOTHERAPY, SYSTEM AND METHOD | HO, ALLEN C | 2884 | Other | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18694293 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RADIOABLATION TREATMENT AREA TARGETING AND GUIDANCE | LAM, ANDREW H | 2682 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18694322 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RADIOABLATION TREATMENT AREA TARGETING AND GUIDANCE | JIA, XIN | 2663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18511326 | MOTION COMPENSATION DURING CARDIAC RADIOABLATION | DOTTIN, DARRYL V | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18376461 | MULTI-SYSTEM SYNCHRONIZATION FOR OPTICAL SURFACE MONITORING | SONG, HOON K | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18477374 | MICROWAVE ABLATION PROBE ASSEMBLY AND CABLE STRUCTURE | HUPCZEY, JR, RONALD JAMES | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18477388 | PORTABLE ABLATION APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18451174 | BIODEGRADABLE RADIOPAQUE MICROSPHERE | MOSHER, ERIC PARKER | 1612 | Other | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
| 18163531 | ABLATION PROBES WITH GUIDANCE INDICATORS TO SUPPORT LOCATION AND DIRECTION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 17710970 | BRACHYTHERAPY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SYSTEM | DORNA, CARRIE R | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 17204657 | USE OF MAGNETIC ELEMENTS TO SHAPE AND DEFOCUS CHARGED PARTICLE BEAMS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 17, 2021 |
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