Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 3 clients • 7 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 4 (57%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 1 | 66.5% | -11.0% |
| BYRD, BRIGID K | 1 | 70.6% | +50.2% |
| ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 1 | 54.0% | +27.8% |
| SCHERBEL, TODD J | 1 | 76.2% | +51.6% |
| BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | 1 | 48.3% | +41.6% |
| HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 1 | 49.1% | +54.4% |
| NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 1 | 64.9% | +53.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17826454 | CURVED SUTURE NEEDLE EXTENSION | BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | 131d overdue |
| 17471017 | TAPERED TRANSITION PORTION FOR SUTURE NEEDLES | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 112d overdue |
| 17877126 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUTURING | SCHERBEL, TODD J | 66d overdue |
| 17470967 | CURVED SUTURE NEEDLES HAVING A NON-SMOOTH PROFILE | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 50d overdue |
| 17945812 | SUTURE NEEDLES WITH FLEXIBLE AND NON-FLEXIBLE COMPONENTS | BYRD, BRIGID K | 8d overdue |
| 17896847 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF FOR TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERPROLIFERATIVE CELLULAR DIVISION, DIABETES, IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE OR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, AND TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD | ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 26d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| ErgoSurgical Group Corp. | 5 |
| Phokus Research Group, LLC | 1 |
| Chai Foundation for Medical Research & Life Extension, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 5 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19075687 | LOW PROFILE MEDICAL KIT | Phokus Research Group, LLC | MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 3732 | Other | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 17945812 | SUTURE NEEDLES WITH FLEXIBLE AND NON-FLEXIBLE COMPONENTS | Ergosurgical Group Corp. | BYRD, BRIGID K | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
| 17896847 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF FOR TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERPROLIFERATIVE CELLULAR DIVISION, DIABETES, IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE OR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, AND TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Chai Foundation For Medical Research & Life Extension, Inc. | ZEMAN, ROBERT A | 1645 | §112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Aug 26, 2022 |
| 17877126 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUTURING | Ergosurgical Group Corp. | SCHERBEL, TODD J | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17826454 | CURVED SUTURE NEEDLE EXTENSION | Ergosurgical Group Corp. | BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | 3771 | §112 | Final Rejection | 131d overdue | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
| 17471017 | TAPERED TRANSITION PORTION FOR SUTURE NEEDLES | Ergosurgical Group Corp. | HOLLM, JONATHAN ADAM | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
| 17470967 | CURVED SUTURE NEEDLES HAVING A NON-SMOOTH PROFILE | Ergosurgical Group Corp. | NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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