Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Acumed LLC has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution with limited concentration by art-unit assignment.
BATES, DAVID W is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since no examiner carries a larger recorded share, prosecution management should prioritize application-specific deadlines while comparing issues within the four art-unit assignments.
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 | 4 (80%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| SEVILLA, CHRISTIAN ANTHONY | 1 | 75.9% | +19.4% |
| HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 1 | 70.3% | +19.4% |
| MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 1 | 33.3% | +65.0% |
| STEWART, ALVIN J | 1 | 82.2% | +0.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801652 | CRANIOFACIAL IMPLANTS FOR NEUROPLASTIC SURGERY | STEWART, ALVIN J | 11d overdue |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17974965 | ANCHOR INSERTION SYSTEMS FOR A WINGED BONE ANCHOR HAVING A DRIVING CORE | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 86d overdue |
| 18767658 | CANNULATED SCREW REMOVAL DEVICE AND METHODS | BATES, DAVID W | 44d overdue |
| 17970801 | GUIDEWIRE SIZING INSTRUMENTS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 28d overdue |
| 18594921 | HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREW HAVING AN ATTACHMENT MECHANISM | SEVILLA, CHRISTIAN ANTHONY | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 2 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18767658 | CANNULATED SCREW REMOVAL DEVICE AND METHODS | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18594921 | HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREW HAVING AN ATTACHMENT MECHANISM | SEVILLA, CHRISTIAN ANTHONY | 3775 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 17974965 | ANCHOR INSERTION SYSTEMS FOR A WINGED BONE ANCHOR HAVING A DRIVING CORE | HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 86d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17970801 | GUIDEWIRE SIZING INSTRUMENTS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2022 |
| 17801652 | CRANIOFACIAL IMPLANTS FOR NEUROPLASTIC SURGERY | STEWART, ALVIN J | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAcumed LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
David W Bates has the most, with 1 of Acumed LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
