Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 3 clients • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 6 (86%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2 | 73.2% | +16.1% |
| ARTMAN, THOMAS R | 1 | 84.4% | +12.5% |
| DOWNING, SAVANNAH STARR | 1 | 77.5% | +6.0% |
| LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 1 | 82.5% | +23.7% |
| DORNA, CARRIE R | 1 | 72.1% | +28.1% |
| HEFFINGTON, JOHN M | 1 | 40.0% | +30.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18361190 | GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF RADIATION THERAPY PLANNING AND TREATMENT | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17204657 | USE OF MAGNETIC ELEMENTS TO SHAPE AND DEFOCUS CHARGED PARTICLE BEAMS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 29d |
| 17710970 | BRACHYTHERAPY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SYSTEM | DORNA, CARRIE R | 35d |
| 18971381 | HIGH DOSE RATE RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING, SYSTEM AND METHOD | ARTMAN, THOMAS R | — |
| 18361190 | GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF RADIATION THERAPY PLANNING AND TREATMENT | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | — |
| 18109608 | MATERIAL INSERTS FOR RADIATION THERAPY | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | — |
| 15885498 | FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT PLANNING | HEFFINGTON, JOHN M | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Varian Inc. | 5 |
| Siemens Healthineers | 1 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 2881 | 2 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 2145 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18971381 | HIGH DOSE RATE RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING, SYSTEM AND METHOD | Siemens Healthineers International AG | ARTMAN, THOMAS R | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 | |
| 18956194 | METAL WINDOW ION CHAMBERS AND RADIATION APPARATUSES INCLUDING THE SAME | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | DOWNING, SAVANNAH STARR | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18361190 | GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF RADIATION THERAPY PLANNING AND TREATMENT | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | LANNU, JOSHUA DARYL DEANON | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18109608 | MATERIAL INSERTS FOR RADIATION THERAPY | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 17710970 | BRACHYTHERAPY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SYSTEM | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 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 | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Mar 17, 2021 |
| 15885498 | FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT PLANNING | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | HEFFINGTON, JOHN M | 2145 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2018 |
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