Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Joint Development Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution means that every active matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different technical group. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's medical and mechanical innovations are diverse enough to trigger different classification reviews.
The busiest examiner, WOODALL, NICHOLAS W, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since each of the 3 distinct examiners only has a portion of the workload, the activity is balanced across the portfolio. Practitioners must manage 3 separate relationships to address the pending office actions. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to WOODALL, NICHOLAS W represents the standard workload for examiners in this portfolio.
Managing 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires a coordinated approach to maintain consistency. Practitioners should monitor the feedback from the 3 distinct examiners to identify any common themes or conflicting requirements. The 1 busiest examiner pending action is a key point of focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 1 | 82.1% | +13.3% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| TUROCY, DAVID P | 1 | 46.9% | +35.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19241099 | UNIBODY ORTHOPEDIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19241099 | UNIBODY ORTHOPEDIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | — |
| 19208255 | DUAL-PURPOSE ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY INSTRUMENT | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 19201758 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS HAVING A SUBSURFACE LEVEL SILICON NITRIDE LAYER APPLIED VIA BOMBARDMENT | TUROCY, DAVID P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19241099 | UNIBODY ORTHOPEDIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19208255 | DUAL-PURPOSE ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY INSTRUMENT | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19201758 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS HAVING A SUBSURFACE LEVEL SILICON NITRIDE LAYER APPLIED VIA BOMBARDMENT | TUROCY, DAVID P | 1718 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialJoint Development Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Nicholas W Woodall has the most, with 1 of Joint Development Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
