Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ins Ortho Inc. currently manages 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Although there are 5 distinct examiners involved, all pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly specialized technical focus for the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner is DANG, PHONG SON H, who is assigned 1 pending office action. Because each of the distinct examiners is handling exactly a single pending office action, the workload is perfectly distributed across the personnel of the lone art unit involved in these cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, PHONG SON H | 1 | 78.0% | +24.6% |
| KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 1 | 71.2% | +33.4% |
| DAVID, SHAUN L | 1 | 72.8% | +19.5% |
| HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | 1 | 37.6% | +42.9% |
| JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 1 | 58.8% | +51.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439594 | INTERNAL BRACE DEVICES AND METHODS | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 79d overdue |
| 19207180 | Multiple Pass Self-Cinching Suture Construct | DANG, PHONG SON H | — |
| 18582250 | SELF-CINCHING ADJUSTABLE LOOP SUTURE BUTTON AND METHODS | DAVID, SHAUN L | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439594 | INTERNAL BRACE DEVICES AND METHODS | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 79d overdue |
| 19207180 | Multiple Pass Self-Cinching Suture Construct | DANG, PHONG SON H | — |
| 19199030 | MULTIPLE PASS SELF-CINCHING SUTURE CONSTRUCT | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | — |
| 18582250 | SELF-CINCHING ADJUSTABLE LOOP SUTURE BUTTON AND METHODS | DAVID, SHAUN L | — |
| 18582622 | SELF-CINCHING SUTURE DEVICES AND METHODS | HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207180 | Multiple Pass Self-Cinching Suture Construct | DANG, PHONG SON H | 3771 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19199030 | MULTIPLE PASS SELF-CINCHING SUTURE CONSTRUCT | KNAUSS, CHRISTIAN D | 3771 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 18582250 | SELF-CINCHING ADJUSTABLE LOOP SUTURE BUTTON AND METHODS | DAVID, SHAUN L | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18582622 | SELF-CINCHING SUTURE DEVICES AND METHODS | HOUSTON, ELIZABETH | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18439594 | INTERNAL BRACE DEVICES AND METHODS | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
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