Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Extremity Medical LLC is currently addressing 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units. The presence of 0 distinct art units suggests the portfolio is currently focused on a specific set of claims or is in an early stage of administrative processing. Practitioners should monitor how the 0 distinct art units classification evolves as the application moves through the system.
The busiest examiner for the company is WOODALL, NICHOLAS W, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio, the current prosecution burden is limited. This allows the applicant to dedicate attention to the requirements of 1 distinct examiner. The involvement of WOODALL, NICHOLAS W simplifies the communication strategy for the company's legal team as they manage the 1 busiest examiner pending action.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 1 | 82.0% | +13.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19219739 | FIXATION ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19219739 | FIXATION ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19219739 | FIXATION ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
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