Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Djo LLC has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These applications are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a high degree of examiner variety. The busiest examiner, NELSON, KERI JESSICA, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
Because there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, with each examiner handling exactly 1 matter. This decentralized approach is maintained even though the applications are concentrated within 2 distinct art units at the USPTO.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 1 | 58.5% | +41.2% |
| MCCARTHY, GINA | 1 | 50.3% | +55.7% |
| TEJANI, ANKIT D | 1 | 81.0% | +16.9% |
| MILLER, DANIEL A | 1 | 34.3% | +57.8% |
| ALBERS, KEVIN S | 1 | 26.6% | +49.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18756675 | PERSONALIZED IMAGE-BASED GUIDANCE FOR ENERGY-BASED THERAPEUTIC DEVICES | TEJANI, ANKIT D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643763 | ORTHOSIS, RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS OF USE | MILLER, DANIEL A | — |
| 17464153 | Hip Brace Kit | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19451131 | BRACE HAVING AN INFLATION CONTROL | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | — |
| 19091343 | BRACE LIMITING RANGE OF MOTION AND METHOD OF USING SAME | MCCARTHY, GINA | — |
| 18756675 | PERSONALIZED IMAGE-BASED GUIDANCE FOR ENERGY-BASED THERAPEUTIC DEVICES | TEJANI, ANKIT D | — |
| 18643763 | ORTHOSIS, RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS OF USE | MILLER, DANIEL A | — |
| 17464153 | Hip Brace Kit | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 4 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19451131 | BRACE HAVING AN INFLATION CONTROL | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 3786 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2026 |
| 19091343 | BRACE LIMITING RANGE OF MOTION AND METHOD OF USING SAME | MCCARTHY, GINA | 3786 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18756675 | PERSONALIZED IMAGE-BASED GUIDANCE FOR ENERGY-BASED THERAPEUTIC DEVICES | TEJANI, ANKIT D | 3796 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18643763 | ORTHOSIS, RELATED COMPONENTS AND METHODS OF USE | MILLER, DANIEL A | 3786 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 17464153 | Hip Brace Kit | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2021 |
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