Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arthrosurface, Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, showing separate examiner handling with limited art-unit concentration.
HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should manage the matters centrally but tailor each response to its examiner and art-unit context.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | 1 | 58.3% | +36.6% |
| DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | 1 | 82.1% | +11.2% |
| HOBAN, MELISSA A | 1 | 62.6% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886655 | ANGLED BASEPLATE FOR HUMERAL AND GLENOID ARTICULAR SURFACE IMPLANT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19172366 | ORTHOPEDIC ALIGNMENT DEVICE | HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | — |
| 18642301 | ARTICULAR SURFACE IMPLANTS WITH DIMPLES | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19172366 | ORTHOPEDIC ALIGNMENT DEVICE | HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | — |
| 18886655 | ANGLED BASEPLATE FOR HUMERAL AND GLENOID ARTICULAR SURFACE IMPLANT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | — |
| 18642301 | ARTICULAR SURFACE IMPLANTS WITH DIMPLES | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19172366 | ORTHOPEDIC ALIGNMENT DEVICE | HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB | 3775 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 18886655 | ANGLED BASEPLATE FOR HUMERAL AND GLENOID ARTICULAR SURFACE IMPLANT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | 3774 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18642301 | ARTICULAR SURFACE IMPLANTS WITH DIMPLES | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialArthrosurface, Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Samuel Saleeb Hanna has the most, with 1 of Arthrosurface, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
