Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Biomet 3I LLC has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 4 examiners across 3 art units, indicating that each examiner handles one pending matter while one art unit receives more than one assignment.
BELK, SHANNEL NICOLE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger share of the pending workload, so prosecution planning should emphasize individual claim and prior-art issues, with limited opportunity for a single examiner-focused strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 1 | 42.1% | +69.8% |
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.4% |
| TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907223 | HYBRID ABUTMENT FOR RESTORATIVE DENTAL SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR INSTALLING THE SAME | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 28d |
| 17566365 | ANGULATED SCREW CHANNEL FOR DENTAL IMPLANT | TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907223 | HYBRID ABUTMENT FOR RESTORATIVE DENTAL SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR INSTALLING THE SAME | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 28d |
| 18743001 | OPTIMIZED LIBRARY SOLUTION FOR DENTAL IMPLANTS | LEE, EDMUND H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18907223 | HYBRID ABUTMENT FOR RESTORATIVE DENTAL SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR INSTALLING THE SAME | FARAJ, LINA AHMAD | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18743001 | OPTIMIZED LIBRARY SOLUTION FOR DENTAL IMPLANTS | LEE, EDMUND H | 1744 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 17566365 | ANGULATED SCREW CHANNEL FOR DENTAL IMPLANT | TAMIRU, ABRHAM ALEHEGN | 2189 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialBiomet 3I LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Lina Ahmad Faraj has the most, with 1 of Biomet 3I LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
