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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Individual Implant Solutions Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These cases are handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning every active application is under the review of a different individual. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical overlap in the examination groups while still maintaining a degree of diversity in the review process. This distribution suggests that the company's medical device innovations are being evaluated by multiple sets of eyes across different specialized units.
The busiest examiner, SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 3, the workload is evenly split among the examiners. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback, as the prosecution is spread across multiple examiners and more than 1 art unit. The lack of concentration under 1 examiner means that the company must successfully navigate 3 separate examination styles to advance its current portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 47.0% | +38.2% |
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +25.6% |
| ROSEN, ERIC J | 1 | 41.3% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748828 | TRANSOSSEOUS BONE PLATE FOR FIBULA FLAP AND DENTAL IMPLANT RECONSTRUCTION | SIPP, AMY R. | 9d overdue |
| 19061322 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRECISION OSTEOTOMY TO SUPPORT TRANSALVEOLAR DENTAL IMPLANT PLACEMENT WITH LIMITED INTEROCCLUSAL SPACE | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | — |
| 17553085 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AN OSTEOTOMY FOR DENTAL IMPLANT | ROSEN, ERIC J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748828 | TRANSOSSEOUS BONE PLATE FOR FIBULA FLAP AND DENTAL IMPLANT RECONSTRUCTION | SIPP, AMY R. | 9d overdue |
| 19061322 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRECISION OSTEOTOMY TO SUPPORT TRANSALVEOLAR DENTAL IMPLANT PLACEMENT WITH LIMITED INTEROCCLUSAL SPACE | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | — |
| 17553085 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AN OSTEOTOMY FOR DENTAL IMPLANT | ROSEN, ERIC J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 2 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19061322 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRECISION OSTEOTOMY TO SUPPORT TRANSALVEOLAR DENTAL IMPLANT PLACEMENT WITH LIMITED INTEROCCLUSAL SPACE | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18748828 | TRANSOSSEOUS BONE PLATE FOR FIBULA FLAP AND DENTAL IMPLANT RECONSTRUCTION | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 17553085 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AN OSTEOTOMY FOR DENTAL IMPLANT | ROSEN, ERIC J | 3772 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2021 |
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