Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Joint Preservation Innovations LLC maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a singular point of contact for the company's current prosecution efforts.
The prosecution activity is localized within a distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow technical specialization for the pending matter. YANG, ANDREW serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the busiest examiner pending count. This alignment suggests that the company's immediate legal strategy is concentrated on a specific examiner's review process.
Practitioners should note that the presence of a single pending office action across a single distinct art unit simplifies the tracking of examiner-specific trends. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering ensures that the prosecution remains within a consistent technical framework at the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, ANDREW | 1 | 84.3% | +10.5% |
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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800638 | SURGICAL ROTARY CUTTING TOOL INCLUDING ARTICULABLE HEAD | YANG, ANDREW | 66d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18800638 | SURGICAL ROTARY CUTTING TOOL INCLUDING ARTICULABLE HEAD | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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