Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xact Robotics Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This volume of activity indicates that the company is actively pursuing multiple patent applications within the mechanical sector. The focus on medical devices suggests that the company's legal strategy is centered on healthcare-related mechanical innovations.
These 2 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each application is being evaluated independently in a different specialized environment at the USPTO. The lack of overlap between examiners and art units requires the company to manage two unique prosecution tracks, each with its own set of examiner behaviors and technical standards.
Merriam, Aaron Rogers is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner is responsible for one of the active matters. Practitioners should be prepared to address two different perspectives across the mechanical engineering divisions to successfully advance the company's patent interests.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 1 | 31.6% | +63.1% |
| BRUCE, FAROUK A | 1 | 48.8% | +38.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17777760 | PLANNING AND REAL-TIME UPDATING A 3D TRAJECTORY OF A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT | BRUCE, FAROUK A | 15d |
| 17968299 | ALGORITHM-BASED METHODS FOR PREDICTING AND/OR DETECTING A CLINICAL CONDITION RELATED TO INSERTION OF A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT TOWARD AN INTERNAL TARGET | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17968299 | ALGORITHM-BASED METHODS FOR PREDICTING AND/OR DETECTING A CLINICAL CONDITION RELATED TO INSERTION OF A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT TOWARD AN INTERNAL TARGET | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
| 17777760 | PLANNING AND REAL-TIME UPDATING A 3D TRAJECTORY OF A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT | BRUCE, FAROUK A | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 18, 2022 |
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