Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
In2Bones Usa LLC has 12 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket spans 8 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating that some examination groups and examiners handle multiple active matters.
HU, ANN M is the busiest examiner, with 4 pending matters. That concentration makes the examiner’s treatment of claim scope, written description, and device structure especially relevant to portfolio monitoring. At the same time, the distribution across 5 art units means that prosecution positions may need to be adapted to different technical contexts.
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 | 2 (20%) |
| §112 only | 4 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HU, ANN M | 3 | 67.8% | +21.5% |
| GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 2 | 85.5% | +17.2% |
| YANG, ANDREW | 1 | 84.3% | +10.4% |
| KINSAUL, ANNA KATHRYN | 1 | 43.1% | +56.3% |
| MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 1 | 68.3% | +24.0% |
| DUBOSE, LAUREN | 1 | 59.1% | +46.2% |
| ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 65.4% | +26.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982966 | Subtalar Plate Implant | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067868 | Surgical Staple Implant Kit | YANG, ANDREW | — |
| 18921582 | BONE PLATE WITH TRANSVERSE SCREW | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 18089902 | ENGINEERED STERILE CARTILAGE IMPLANT PLUG(S) WITH STERILE, SPECIFIC INSTRUMENT KIT(S) | HU, ANN M | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16580894 | SYNDESMOSIS TREATMENT CONSTRUCT | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 15d overdue |
| 17064483 | OSTEOCHONDRAL/SUBCHONDRAL TREATMENT SYSTEM | HU, ANN M | 26d |
| 16854264 | SYNDESMOSIS INSERTION CONSTRUCT | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 54d |
| 19067868 | Surgical Staple Implant Kit | YANG, ANDREW | — |
| 18982966 | Subtalar Plate Implant | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 18921582 | BONE PLATE WITH TRANSVERSE SCREW | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 18773381 | Engineered Sterile Cartilage Implant Plug(s) With Sterile, Specific Instrument Kit(s) | HU, ANN M | — |
| 18669334 | METHOD FOR STERILE PACKAGING OF A KIRSCHNER WIRE AND CAP | KINSAUL, ANNA KATHRYN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 4 |
| 3775 | 3 |
| 3771 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19067868 | Surgical Staple Implant Kit | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2025 |
| 18982966 | Subtalar Plate Implant | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 3775 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18921582 | BONE PLATE WITH TRANSVERSE SCREW | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 3775 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18773381 | Engineered Sterile Cartilage Implant Plug(s) With Sterile, Specific Instrument Kit(s) | HU, ANN M | 3774 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18669334 | METHOD FOR STERILE PACKAGING OF A KIRSCHNER WIRE AND CAP | KINSAUL, ANNA KATHRYN | 3731 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18089902 | ENGINEERED STERILE CARTILAGE IMPLANT PLUG(S) WITH STERILE, SPECIFIC INSTRUMENT KIT(S) | HU, ANN M | 3774 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 17832420 | KNOTLESS SUTURE ANCHOR | MANNAN, MIKAIL A | 3774 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2022 |
| 17064483 | OSTEOCHONDRAL/SUBCHONDRAL TREATMENT SYSTEM | HU, ANN M | 3774 | §112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Oct 06, 2020 |
| 16854264 | SYNDESMOSIS INSERTION CONSTRUCT | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 3771 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Apr 21, 2020 |
| 16580894 | SYNDESMOSIS TREATMENT CONSTRUCT | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 24, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialIn2Bones Usa LLC has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Ann M Hu has the most, with 3 of In2Bones Usa LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
