Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
9 pending office actions • 1 client • 9 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 7 (78%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, YI-SHAN | 1 | 69.4% | +56.7% |
| HANNAN, B M M | 1 | 81.8% | +17.5% |
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.0% | +20.9% |
| MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 1 | 65.9% | +13.2% |
| JACOB, OOMMEN | 1 | 78.8% | +17.4% |
| SCHERBEL, TODD J | 1 | 76.2% | +51.6% |
| KASENGE, CHARLES R | 1 | 84.2% | +13.4% |
| WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 1 | 71.6% | +13.9% |
| BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN | 1 | 74.0% | +21.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18961863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING TO A TABLE | HANNAN, B M M | 26d |
| 18326567 | TECHNIQUES FOR ADJUSTING A HEADREST OF A COMPUTER-ASSISTED SYSTEM | KASENGE, CHARLES R | 27d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18595803 | TELESCOPING CANNULA ARM | SCHERBEL, TODD J | 18d overdue |
| 18961863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING TO A TABLE | HANNAN, B M M | 26d |
| 18326567 | TECHNIQUES FOR ADJUSTING A HEADREST OF A COMPUTER-ASSISTED SYSTEM | KASENGE, CHARLES R | 27d |
| 18934060 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE DETECTION DURING INSTRUMENT GRASPING AND STAPLING | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 29d |
| 17800524 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGISTRATION FEATURE INTEGRITY CHECKING | BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN | 29d |
| 19191105 | SYSTEM AND METHOD RELATED TO REGISTRATION FOR A MEDICAL PROCEDURE | YANG, YI-SHAN | 40d |
| 18007027 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING ASSIGNMENTS FOR MANIPULATOR ASSEMBLIES | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 40d |
| 18703089 | CONTROLLING A REPOSITIONABLE STRUCTURE SYSTEM BASED ON A GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN OPERATOR AND A COMPUTER-ASSISTED DEVICE | JACOB, OOMMEN | 62d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC. | 9 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 2 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19191105 | SYSTEM AND METHOD RELATED TO REGISTRATION FOR A MEDICAL PROCEDURE | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | YANG, YI-SHAN | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 18961863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING TO A TABLE | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | HANNAN, B M M | 3657 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18934060 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE DETECTION DURING INSTRUMENT GRASPING AND STAPLING | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18654998 | DUAL BRAKE SETUP JOINT | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 3618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18703089 | CONTROLLING A REPOSITIONABLE STRUCTURE SYSTEM BASED ON A GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN OPERATOR AND A COMPUTER-ASSISTED DEVICE | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | JACOB, OOMMEN | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18595803 | TELESCOPING CANNULA ARM | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | SCHERBEL, TODD J | 3771 | Other | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18326567 | TECHNIQUES FOR ADJUSTING A HEADREST OF A COMPUTER-ASSISTED SYSTEM | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | KASENGE, CHARLES R | 2116 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18007027 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING ASSIGNMENTS FOR MANIPULATOR ASSEMBLIES | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 17800524 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGISTRATION FEATURE INTEGRITY CHECKING | Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | BUKSA, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Aug 17, 2022 |
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