Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bone Solutions Inc. is navigating 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This high ratio of examiners to actions suggests that the company is facing a diverse set of examination styles and perspectives across its current filings. Such a distribution requires the applicant to maintain a flexible prosecution strategy that can adapt to multiple different officials simultaneously.
The portfolio's activity spans 3 distinct art units, which provides some level of technical distribution within the patent office's organizational structure. WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL is identified as the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. Although this examiner is the busiest, they only manage 1 of the 4 pending matters, reflecting the broad distribution of the workload across the examination corps. This lack of concentration means that the company must tailor its legal arguments to the specific preferences of four different officials to secure its intellectual property rights.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHARMA, YASHITA | 1 | 81.8% | +24.6% |
| WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 1 | 61.0% | +39.1% |
| COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1 | 39.0% | +18.6% |
| CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 1 | 49.2% | +38.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261133 | Magnesium-Based Porous Coating for Orthopedic Implant | SHARMA, YASHITA | 25d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261122 | Orthopedic Implant and Methods of Use | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261133 | Magnesium-Based Porous Coating for Orthopedic Implant | SHARMA, YASHITA | 25d overdue |
| 18000192 | Bio-Material Composition and Methods of Use in Craniomaxillofacial Surgery | CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 28d |
| 18261122 | Orthopedic Implant and Methods of Use | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | — |
| 18000215 | Bio-Material Composition and Methods of Use | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18261133 | Magnesium-Based Porous Coating for Orthopedic Implant | SHARMA, YASHITA | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18261122 | Orthopedic Implant and Methods of Use | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 3774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18000215 | Bio-Material Composition and Methods of Use | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1619 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 18000192 | Bio-Material Composition and Methods of Use in Craniomaxillofacial Surgery | CRAIGO, WILLIAM A | 1615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
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