Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 5 | 78.1% | +11.7% |
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 77.9% | +19.0% |
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.2% | +48.5% |
| FUELLING, MICHAEL | 1 | 43.7% | +31.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373185 | SPINAL MOTION RESTORATION | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 42d overdue |
| 18226197 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ALTERING SPINAL LORDOSIS AND/OR KYPHOSIS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 10d overdue |
| 19031595 | SPINAL ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 15d |
| 18236368 | RESTORING SPINAL ALIGNMENT AND/OR RANGE OF MOTION USING BILATERAL IMPLANTS | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 16d |
| 18236367 | RESTORING SPINAL ALIGNMENT AND/OR RANGE OF MOTION | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18373185 | SPINAL MOTION RESTORATION | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 42d overdue |
| 18594385 | POSTERIOR TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENT | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 30d overdue |
| 18226197 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ALTERING SPINAL LORDOSIS AND/OR KYPHOSIS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 10d overdue |
| 19031595 | SPINAL ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 15d |
| 18236368 | RESTORING SPINAL ALIGNMENT AND/OR RANGE OF MOTION USING BILATERAL IMPLANTS | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 16d |
| 18236367 | RESTORING SPINAL ALIGNMENT AND/OR RANGE OF MOTION | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
| 18232557 | TOTAL SPINAL JOINT SYSTEMS WITH DISSIMILAR BEARING MATERIALS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | — |
| 18226727 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR IMPROVING THE ACCURACY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF SPINAL MOTION RESTORATION AND ALIGNMENT | FUELLING, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 7 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031595 | SPINAL ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 18594385 | POSTERIOR TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENT | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18373185 | SPINAL MOTION RESTORATION | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18236368 | RESTORING SPINAL ALIGNMENT AND/OR RANGE OF MOTION USING BILATERAL IMPLANTS | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18236367 | RESTORING SPINAL ALIGNMENT AND/OR RANGE OF MOTION | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18232557 | TOTAL SPINAL JOINT SYSTEMS WITH DISSIMILAR BEARING MATERIALS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18226727 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR IMPROVING THE ACCURACY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF SPINAL MOTION RESTORATION AND ALIGNMENT | FUELLING, MICHAEL | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18226197 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ALTERING SPINAL LORDOSIS AND/OR KYPHOSIS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
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