Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
17 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 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. 17 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 | 11 (65%) |
| §102 only | 5 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPP, AMY R. | 3 | 70.5% | +26.4% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 2 | 76.2% | +17.0% |
| WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 2 | 80.4% | +17.7% |
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 2 | 9.1% | +0.0% |
| KU, SI MING | 1 | 72.4% | +33.2% |
| MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE | 1 | 78.4% | +10.1% |
| DALAL, DHRASTI SNEHAL | 1 | 58.3% | +55.6% |
| PATEL, AREN | 1 | 78.8% | +17.5% |
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 1 | 61.1% | +33.3% |
| STEWART, ALVIN J | 1 | 82.4% | +0.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18082768 | ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING CEMENT RESTRICTOR COMPONENTS IN A DIRECT ANTERIOR APPROACH HIP REPLACEMENT SURGICAL PROCEDURE | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 66d overdue |
| 18089142 | ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A CEMENTED FEMORAL STEM COMPONENT IN A DIRECT ANTERIOR APPROACH HIP REPLACEMENT SURGICAL PROCEDURE | STEWART, ALVIN J | 37d overdue |
| 18087760 | ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR DIRECT ANTERIOR APPROACH HIP ARTHROPLASTY AND METHODS OF USE | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 26d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17857584 | ACETABULAR ORTHOPAEDIC PROSTHESIS AND METHOD | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 60d overdue |
| 17660325 | ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT SYSTEM WITH AUGMENTATION DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 12d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560240 | SYSTEM FOR GUIDING A SURGICAL TOOL COMPRISING AN OPERATIVE AXIS WITH RESPECT TO AN ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE | DALAL, DHRASTI SNEHAL | 77d overdue |
| 18760783 | ACETABULAR REAMER HANDLE AND METHOD OF REAMING AN ACETABULUM | SIPP, AMY R. | 71d overdue |
| 18082768 | ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING CEMENT RESTRICTOR COMPONENTS IN A DIRECT ANTERIOR APPROACH HIP REPLACEMENT SURGICAL PROCEDURE | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 66d overdue |
| 18714735 | IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO DEVICES FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT EXTRACTION | BATES, DAVID W | 56d overdue |
| 18715420 | IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO DEVICES FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT IMPACTION | BATES, DAVID W | 53d overdue |
| 18643547 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT BOLT | SIPP, AMY R. | 35d overdue |
| 18112863 | BONY LANDMARK DETERMINATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 26d overdue |
| 18087760 | ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR DIRECT ANTERIOR APPROACH HIP ARTHROPLASTY AND METHODS OF USE | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 26d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 6 |
| 3774 | 4 |
| 3799 | 3 |
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18956985 | SURGICAL ROTATIONAL TOOL DRIVER AND METHOD | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18955230 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR BALANCING A PATIENT'S KNEE JOINT DURING AN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18760783 | ACETABULAR REAMER HANDLE AND METHOD OF REAMING AN ACETABULUM | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18715420 | IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO DEVICES FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT IMPACTION | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18714735 | IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO DEVICES FOR SURGICAL INSTRUMENT EXTRACTION | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18643547 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT BOLT | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18434876 | PROSTHETIC IMPLANT REVISION TOOLS | MALAMUD, DEBORAH LESLIE | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18560240 | SYSTEM FOR GUIDING A SURGICAL TOOL COMPRISING AN OPERATIVE AXIS WITH RESPECT TO AN ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE | DALAL, DHRASTI SNEHAL | 3700 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18350701 | KNEE ARTHROPLASTY LOAD BALANCING UTILIZING AN INTRAOPERATIVE SENSOR SYSTEM | PATEL, AREN | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
| 18112863 | BONY LANDMARK DETERMINATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 18089142 | ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING A CEMENTED FEMORAL STEM COMPONENT IN A DIRECT ANTERIOR APPROACH HIP REPLACEMENT SURGICAL PROCEDURE | STEWART, ALVIN J | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
| 18087760 | ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR DIRECT ANTERIOR APPROACH HIP ARTHROPLASTY AND METHODS OF USE | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
| 18082768 | ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING CEMENT RESTRICTOR COMPONENTS IN A DIRECT ANTERIOR APPROACH HIP REPLACEMENT SURGICAL PROCEDURE | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 17872572 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE | KREMER, MATTHEW | 3791 | §112 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2022 |
| 17857584 | ACETABULAR ORTHOPAEDIC PROSTHESIS AND METHOD | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Jul 05, 2022 |
| 17660325 | ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT SYSTEM WITH AUGMENTATION DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
| 17557635 | KNEE CONE AUGMENTS AND ASSOCIATED SURGICAL BROACHES FOR USE IN AN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE | HIGHLAND, RACHEL S | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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