Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 1 | 86.4% | -8.5% |
| WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 1 | 82.1% | +13.0% |
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.2% | +48.7% |
| SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 1 | 68.2% | +43.8% |
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.2% | +11.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18952830 | COUPLING ASSEMBLY FOR COUPLING A ROD TO A BONE ANCHORING ELEMENT, AND POLYAXIAL BONE ANCHORING DEVICE | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 26d |
| 18338066 | COUPLING DEVICE FOR COUPLING A ROD TO A BONE ANCHORING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18446266 | COUPLING DEVICE FOR USE WITH A BONE ANCHORING ELEMENT AND BONE ANCHORING DEVICE WITH SUCH A COUPLING DEVICE | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 10d overdue |
| 18952830 | COUPLING ASSEMBLY FOR COUPLING A ROD TO A BONE ANCHORING ELEMENT, AND POLYAXIAL BONE ANCHORING DEVICE | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 26d |
| 18593683 | POLYAXIAL BONE ANCHORING DEVICE WITH ENLARGED PIVOT ANGLE | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 29d |
| 18338066 | COUPLING DEVICE FOR COUPLING A ROD TO A BONE ANCHORING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 4 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19045083 | ANCHORING ASSEMBLY FOR ANCHORING A ROD TO A BONE OR A VERTEBRA | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 3773 | Other | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18952830 | COUPLING ASSEMBLY FOR COUPLING A ROD TO A BONE ANCHORING ELEMENT, AND POLYAXIAL BONE ANCHORING DEVICE | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18593683 | POLYAXIAL BONE ANCHORING DEVICE WITH ENLARGED PIVOT ANGLE | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §102 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18446266 | COUPLING DEVICE FOR USE WITH A BONE ANCHORING ELEMENT AND BONE ANCHORING DEVICE WITH SUCH A COUPLING DEVICE | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 3773 | Other | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18338066 | COUPLING DEVICE FOR COUPLING A ROD TO A BONE ANCHORING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
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