Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Davol Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating that examiner exposure is broad even though the technical assignments are more concentrated.
TANNER, JOCELIN C is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should maintain separate examiner-specific response plans while using the 3-art-unit structure to compare treatment of related device concepts. Grouped review may help identify recurring claim or prior-art issues, but the examiner distribution means that one response position should not automatically be applied across the docket.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TANNER, JOCELIN C | 1 | 72.3% | +34.7% |
| BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
| MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | 1 | 66.8% | +33.7% |
| FLORES, ADRIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 1 | 68.2% | +19.1% |
| NG, HENRY | 1 | 62.9% | +53.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18877064 | IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS WITH SELF-FIXATING GRIPS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284766 | VIBRATIONAL POWDER APPLICATOR | NG, HENRY | 30d |
| 18877191 | IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS WITH SELF-FIXATING GRIPS | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
| 18839962 | FASCIAL CLOSURE DEVICE | MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | — |
| 18571977 | METHODS AND IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND/OR AUGMENTATION OF AN ANATOMICAL SHAPE | FLORES, ADRIAN | — |
| 18571704 | METHODS AND IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND/OR AUGMENTATION OF AN ANATOMICAL FEATURE | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18284766 | VIBRATIONAL POWDER APPLICATOR | NG, HENRY | 30d |
| 18877191 | IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS WITH SELF-FIXATING GRIPS | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
| 18877064 | IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS WITH SELF-FIXATING GRIPS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18839962 | FASCIAL CLOSURE DEVICE | MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | — |
| 18571704 | METHODS AND IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND/OR AUGMENTATION OF AN ANATOMICAL FEATURE | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 3 |
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877191 | IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS WITH SELF-FIXATING GRIPS | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18877064 | IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS WITH SELF-FIXATING GRIPS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18839962 | FASCIAL CLOSURE DEVICE | MENDEZ, KATHERINE H | 3771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18571977 | METHODS AND IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND/OR AUGMENTATION OF AN ANATOMICAL SHAPE | FLORES, ADRIAN | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18571704 | METHODS AND IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND/OR AUGMENTATION OF AN ANATOMICAL FEATURE | TYSON, MELANIE RUANO | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18284766 | VIBRATIONAL POWDER APPLICATOR | NG, HENRY | 3741 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDavol Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Jocelin C Tanner has the most, with 1 of Davol Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
