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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Advita Ortho LLC currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current legal efforts are concentrated within a specific technical niche rather than spread across diverse engineering fields. This focus allows for a very specific prosecution strategy tailored to the requirements of the single assigned department.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is SIPP, AMY R., who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This specific examiner handles the totality of the company's 1 pending office action. For practitioners, this means that the current prosecution experience is entirely dependent on the interactions with SIPP, AMY R. within the assigned technical group. The narrow scope of 1 distinct examiner reflects a streamlined but highly focused patenting phase for the entity at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18961066 | ACTUATED POSITIONING DEVICE FOR ARTHROPLASTY AND METHODS OF USE | SIPP, AMY R. | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18961066 | ACTUATED POSITIONING DEVICE FOR ARTHROPLASTY AND METHODS OF USE | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
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