Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Joint Development LLC currently has 2 pending office actions distributed across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's intellectual property spans different specialized classifications. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, requiring the company to manage different sets of examiner preferences and procedural styles simultaneously. This distribution suggests a broader technical footprint than a portfolio confined to a narrow classification.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is COCHRAN, KARI LEE, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With the 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split among the 2 distinct examiners involved. This distribution across the 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is pursuing different technical embodiments. Practitioners must tailor their arguments to the specific standards of each unit while managing the applications to ensure protection across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COCHRAN, KARI LEE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| TUROCY, DAVID P | 1 | 46.9% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18198240 | UNIVERSAL TIBIAL INSERT WITH ENHANCED MEDIAL CONGRUENCE | COCHRAN, KARI LEE | 22d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17713791 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS HAVING A SUBSURFACE LEVEL CERAMIC LAYER APPLIED VIA BOMBARDMENT | TUROCY, DAVID P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18198240 | UNIVERSAL TIBIAL INSERT WITH ENHANCED MEDIAL CONGRUENCE | COCHRAN, KARI LEE | 3774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 17713791 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS HAVING A SUBSURFACE LEVEL CERAMIC LAYER APPLIED VIA BOMBARDMENT | TUROCY, DAVID P | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2022 |
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