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
Joint Preservation Innovations LLC has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, indicating separate examination contacts within a single technical classification.
SIPP, AMY R. is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile supports a focused, matter-level prosecution review, with the common art unit providing a natural point for comparing technical treatment and response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +26.0% |
| YANG, ANDREW | 1 | 84.3% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800638 | SURGICAL ROTARY CUTTING TOOL INCLUDING ARTICULABLE HEAD | YANG, ANDREW | 66d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19360440 | Articulating Rotary Cutting Tool | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800638 | SURGICAL ROTARY CUTTING TOOL INCLUDING ARTICULABLE HEAD | YANG, ANDREW | 66d overdue |
| 19360440 | Articulating Rotary Cutting Tool | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19360440 | Articulating Rotary Cutting Tool | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2025 |
| 18800638 | SURGICAL ROTARY CUTTING TOOL INCLUDING ARTICULABLE HEAD | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialJoint Preservation Innovations LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Amy R. Sipp has the most, with 1 of Joint Preservation Innovations LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
