Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Institute For Musculoskeletal Science And Education Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning that no two actions share the same reviewer. The busiest examiner, GIBSON, ERIC SHANE, is responsible for 1 pending action. This distribution shows that the company's current workload is spread evenly across the 3 distinct examiners.
All 3 pending actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. For a practitioner, this provides a consistent administrative and technical environment, as all matters are being handled within the same USPTO division. However, the use of 3 distinct examiners means that the company must still navigate 3 different individual examination styles. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering defines the technical scope of these 3 actions. While the art unit is singular, the 3 different examiners will each apply their own interpretation to the pending office actions. This requires a flexible strategy that can adapt to the specific preferences of each official while maintaining consistency within the single art unit. The lack of examiner overlap prevents the use of cross-case insights but ensures a broad review of the company's medical device 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 1 | 85.4% | +17.2% |
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 77.9% | +19.2% |
| SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 1 | 68.3% | +43.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19190918 | Implant With Structural Members Arranged Around A Ring | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514415 | Implant With Curved Bone Contacting Elements | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514415 | Implant With Curved Bone Contacting Elements | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 27d |
| 19190918 | Implant With Structural Members Arranged Around A Ring | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 19011502 | Implant with Improved Bone Contact | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19190918 | Implant With Structural Members Arranged Around A Ring | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19011502 | Implant with Improved Bone Contact | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | — | §103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18514415 | Implant With Curved Bone Contacting Elements | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 3773 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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