Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ensemble Orthopedics Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 4 actions are concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing an extremely high level of centralization. This suggests that the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on a single patent family or a very narrow set of related technologies. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative side of prosecution for the 4 pending office actions.
HOBAN, MELISSA A is the busiest examiner, handling 4 busiest examiner pending actions. This means that a single individual's perspective and examination style will determine the outcome for the company's entire active portfolio. While this structure minimizes the need for diverse legal strategies, it also means the company's success is highly dependent on its relationship with this 1 distinct examiner. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of this examiner to resolve the 4 pending office actions efficiently, as there are no other examiners involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (100%) |
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 | 4 | 62.8% | +13.7% |
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 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18118076 | IMPLANTABLE INTERPOSITIONAL ORTHOPEDIC PAIN MANAGEMENT | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 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 |
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