Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Integrity Orthopaedics Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This distribution shows that while the company's current filings are concentrated within a single art unit, they are being reviewed by 2 different individuals, each with their own examining style.
DORNBUSCH, DIANNE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 action. This means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution depends on the independent decisions of 2 different people, even though they are working within the same 1 distinct art unit.
The concentration of 2 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit provides some consistency in terms of the prior art and legal standards that will be applied. However, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that practitioners must still be prepared for two different sets of examiner-specific feedback. Effectively managing 2 pending office actions in this manner requires a strategy that balances art unit consistency with examiner-specific advocacy within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | 1 | 73.9% | +35.2% |
| DANG, PHONG SON H | 1 | 78.0% | +24.6% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18757125 | TENSIONABLE AND LOCKABLE MICRO SUTURE ANCHORS AND ANCHOR ARRAYS FOR ANATOMICAL ATTACHMENT OF SOFT TISSUE TO BONE | DANG, PHONG SON H | 1d overdue |
| 19079020 | METHOD FOR CREATING A TENSIONABLE AND LOCKABLE SUTURE ANCHOR ARRAY FOR ANATOMICAL ATTACHMENT OF TISSUE TO BONE | DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079020 | METHOD FOR CREATING A TENSIONABLE AND LOCKABLE SUTURE ANCHOR ARRAY FOR ANATOMICAL ATTACHMENT OF TISSUE TO BONE | DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 18757125 | TENSIONABLE AND LOCKABLE MICRO SUTURE ANCHORS AND ANCHOR ARRAYS FOR ANATOMICAL ATTACHMENT OF SOFT TISSUE TO BONE | DANG, PHONG SON H | 3771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
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