Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Active Implants LLC is currently dealing with 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, ZIMMERMAN, REBECCA LYNEE, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit.
The 1 pending office action constitutes the entire active workload for the company at this time. ZIMMERMAN, REBECCA LYNEE is the sole examiner and is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending action, which means their specific approach to medical device claims will dictate the outcome. There is no examiner or art unit diversity to provide alternative perspectives or strategies within the current pending set.
For the practitioner, the focus on 1 distinct art unit means that the technical arguments can be highly specialized. However, the reliance on 1 distinct examiner creates a single point of failure for the company's current prosecution efforts. Successfully resolving the 1 pending office action with ZIMMERMAN, REBECCA LYNEE is the only path forward for the portfolio's immediate growth.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZIMMERMAN, REBECCA LYNEE | 1 | 78.4% | +19.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17982179 | FLOATING JOINT REPLACEMENT DEVICE WITH SUPPORTIVE SIDEWALL | ZIMMERMAN, REBECCA LYNEE | 91d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17982179 | FLOATING JOINT REPLACEMENT DEVICE WITH SUPPORTIVE SIDEWALL | ZIMMERMAN, REBECCA LYNEE | 3774 | §102 | Final Rejection | 91d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
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