Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ht Medical LLC has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a broader spread of prosecution activity compared to more concentrated portfolios. This diversity suggests that the company is pursuing multiple technical paths or different types of medical device innovations simultaneously.
JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, this means the prosecution strategy must be adaptable to 2 different examiners and 2 different art unit standards. The split workload requires a complex management approach to ensure that the arguments presented in 1 art unit do not negatively impact the prosecution occurring in the other. The organization's current momentum depends on resolving the 2 separate office actions, including the 1 currently under the review of JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 1 | 63.8% | +30.0% |
| BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.5% | +48.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18922323 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED TITANIUM BONE DEVICE | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18418251 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAPPING AND PATH DETERMINATION | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 77d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18418251 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAPPING AND PATH DETERMINATION | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 77d overdue |
| 18922323 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED TITANIUM BONE DEVICE | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 26d |
| 18978025 | SACROILIAC FUSION SCREW | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 2 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18978025 | SACROILIAC FUSION SCREW | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18922323 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED TITANIUM BONE DEVICE | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18418251 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAPPING AND PATH DETERMINATION | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2024 |
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