Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ensemble Orthopedics Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio has 5 pending office actions. All these matters are handled by 1 distinct examiner.
The prosecution is located within 1 distinct art unit. HOBAN, MELISSA A is the busiest examiner, with 5 busiest examiner pending office actions. This examiner is responsible for the entire workload, meaning the 5 busiest examiner pending office actions match the total pending count for the company.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBAN, MELISSA A | 5 | 62.6% | +13.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18118076 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 68d |
| 18118078 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 79d |
| 18118083 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 83d |
| 18118081 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18118076 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 68d |
| 18118078 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 79d |
| 18118083 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 83d |
| 18118081 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
| 16865296 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18118078 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 79d | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18118083 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18118081 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18118076 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 16865296 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialEnsemble Orthopedics Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Melissa A Hoban has the most, with 5 of Ensemble Orthopedics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
