Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
International Life Sciences LLC D/B/A Artelon has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters involve 5 distinct examiners across 2 art units, indicating examiner-level distribution across a narrower art-unit footprint.
POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE is associated with 1 pending matter. Counsel should assess the art-unit assignments and examiner-specific issues separately, while maintaining a coordinated response strategy for the 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 1 | 59.6% | +33.2% |
| LE, KHOA TAN | 1 | 75.4% | +41.7% |
| KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 1 | 58.2% | +37.1% |
| DAVID, SHAUN L | 1 | 72.7% | +18.5% |
| TANNER, JOCELIN C | 1 | 72.3% | +34.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481223 | SURGICAL ANCHORS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND METHODS OF USE | DAVID, SHAUN L | 34d |
| 19076450 | PASSING NEEDLES FOR ELASTOMERIC DEVICES | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | — |
| 18486749 | ORTHOPEDIC DEVICE CADDIES AND KITS | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — |
| 18376085 | INSTRUMENTS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SECURING ANCHORS, ELASTOMERIC DEVICES, AND OTHER ELEMENTS IN BONE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481223 | SURGICAL ANCHORS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND METHODS OF USE | DAVID, SHAUN L | 34d |
| 19076450 | PASSING NEEDLES FOR ELASTOMERIC DEVICES | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | — |
| 18691032 | SURGICAL ANCHORS AND SURGICAL ANCHORING METHODS | LE, KHOA TAN | — |
| 18486749 | ORTHOPEDIC DEVICE CADDIES AND KITS | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — |
| 18376085 | INSTRUMENTS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SECURING ANCHORS, ELASTOMERIC DEVICES, AND OTHER ELEMENTS IN BONE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 4 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19076450 | PASSING NEEDLES FOR ELASTOMERIC DEVICES | POLAND, CHERIE MICHELLE | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18691032 | SURGICAL ANCHORS AND SURGICAL ANCHORING METHODS | LE, KHOA TAN | 3771 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18486749 | ORTHOPEDIC DEVICE CADDIES AND KITS | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 3775 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18481223 | SURGICAL ANCHORS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND METHODS OF USE | DAVID, SHAUN L | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18376085 | INSTRUMENTS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SECURING ANCHORS, ELASTOMERIC DEVICES, AND OTHER ELEMENTS IN BONE | TANNER, JOCELIN C | 3771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialInternational Life Sciences LLC D/B/A Artelon has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Cherie Michelle Poland has the most, with 1 of International Life Sciences LLC D/B/A Artelon's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
