Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 8 (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. 5 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. 5 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 | 8 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 57.5% | +40.0% |
| EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 1 | 75.3% | +4.2% |
| EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | 1 | 48.9% | +69.0% |
| NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL | 1 | — | — |
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +17.0% |
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 1 | 70.0% | +24.3% |
| EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | 1 | 55.2% | +26.4% |
| FARAG, AMAL ALY | 1 | 67.6% | +38.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18532343 | GAP BALANCING ASSEMBLY FOR KNEE REVISION SURGERY | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 26d overdue |
| 18508668 | IMPLANTABLE SENSOR FOR DETERMINING ORIENTATION AND MOVEMENT OF BONE | EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | 3d overdue |
| 17206552 | COMPUTER-ASSISTED TRACKING SYSTEM USING ULTRASOUND | FARAG, AMAL ALY | 22d |
| 18770738 | COMPUTER-ASSISTED NAVIGATION OF LOCK HOLE IN IMPLANT | BATES, DAVID W | 55d |
| 19243361 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SURGICAL HARDWARE | GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 18962555 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTRAOPERATIVE ANATOMICAL IMAGING | EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19243361 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SURGICAL HARDWARE | Orthosoft Ulc | GILLIGAN, CHRISTOPHER L | 3683 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2025 |
| 18972190 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRACKING MOVEMENT OF ROBOT IN ROBOT-ASSISTED SURGERY | Orthosoft Ulc | EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18962555 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTRAOPERATIVE ANATOMICAL IMAGING | Orthosoft Ulc | EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18924039 | ROBOTIC SURGERY SYSTEM WITH USER INTERFACING | Orthosoft Ulc | NECKEL, NATHAN DANIEL | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 | |
| 18770738 | COMPUTER-ASSISTED NAVIGATION OF LOCK HOLE IN IMPLANT | Orthosoft Ulc | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18532343 | GAP BALANCING ASSEMBLY FOR KNEE REVISION SURGERY | Orthosoft Ulc | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18508668 | IMPLANTABLE SENSOR FOR DETERMINING ORIENTATION AND MOVEMENT OF BONE | Orthosoft Ulc | EISEMAN, ADAM JARED | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 17206552 | COMPUTER-ASSISTED TRACKING SYSTEM USING ULTRASOUND | Orthosoft Ulc | FARAG, AMAL ALY | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 19, 2021 |
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