Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arthrosurface, Inc. has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Despite this variety in examiners, all of the pending actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical focus for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner, BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split. The most notable aspect of this portfolio is the concentration in 1 distinct art unit. This means that while practitioners must adapt to the individual styles of 4 different examiners, they can expect the technical and legal standards of that 1 art unit to remain constant across all 4 pending office actions. This structure allows for a focused strategy that masters the specific requirements of the 1 art unit while still addressing the unique feedback from each of the 4 distinct examiners. The lack of examiner overlap means no individual person's history will dominate the entire portfolio's outcome.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +25.6% |
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 1 | 70.1% | +24.2% |
| RAMANA, ANURADHA | 1 | 82.7% | +22.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972380 | INLAY GLENOID IMPLANTS AND METHODS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18078579 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIZING AND INTRODUCTION OF SOFT-TISSUE ALLOGRAFTS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | — |
| 17658817 | SURGICAL FASTENERS, TOOLS, AND METHODS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18430154 | REAMER | SIPP, AMY R. | 99d overdue |
| 18972380 | INLAY GLENOID IMPLANTS AND METHODS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18078579 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIZING AND INTRODUCTION OF SOFT-TISSUE ALLOGRAFTS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | — |
| 17658817 | SURGICAL FASTENERS, TOOLS, AND METHODS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18972380 | INLAY GLENOID IMPLANTS AND METHODS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18430154 | REAMER | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 99d overdue | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18078579 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIZING AND INTRODUCTION OF SOFT-TISSUE ALLOGRAFTS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
| 17658817 | SURGICAL FASTENERS, TOOLS, AND METHODS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 3775 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2022 |
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