Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Medos International Sarl currently has 10 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Each of these 10 actions is assigned to a different individual, as there are 10 distinct examiners involved. This distribution suggests a variety of perspectives across the pending matters, with no single examiner holding more than one case. The portfolio is active in 5 distinct art units, which indicates a moderate level of technical concentration within the medical devices field. This ratio of 10 pending actions to 5 art units suggests that multiple examiners are likely working within the same technical groups.
KAMIKAWA, TRACY L is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, reflecting the even distribution of the 10 pending actions across the 10 distinct examiners. This decentralized structure means that practitioners must manage 10 different examiner relationships while navigating the specific requirements of 5 distinct art units. The concentration in 5 art units provides some level of technical consistency, even though the examiners themselves are all different. Practitioners should focus on the trends within these 5 art units to find common ground across the 10 pending office actions. The success of the portfolio depends on a strategy that can adapt to 10 different individual styles within a relatively focused technical framework.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 2 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 1 | 58.4% | +37.3% |
| NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 1 | 64.2% | +28.8% |
| IGBOKO, CHIMA U | 1 | 78.6% | +39.8% |
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.2% | +11.8% |
| COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 1 | 69.4% | +31.9% |
| MALDONADO, STEVEN | 1 | 26.9% | +42.9% |
| SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 1 | 58.1% | +58.1% |
| KLEIN, BROOKE L | 1 | 53.7% | +55.1% |
| SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | 1 | 75.4% | +8.0% |
| PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 1 | 46.6% | +18.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17000965 | IMPLANT HOLDER | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 603d overdue |
| 17935192 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GUIDING A SURGICAL ACCESS DEVICE | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 11d overdue |
| 18479044 | TANDEM ROD CONNECTORS AND RELATED METHODS | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | — |
| 18241597 | REAL-TIME TRACKING AND MONITORING OF ARRAYS FOR VERIFICATION | MALDONADO, STEVEN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17000965 | IMPLANT HOLDER | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 603d overdue |
| 17935192 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GUIDING A SURGICAL ACCESS DEVICE | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 11d overdue |
| 18466192 | MODULAR CONNECTOR ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF USE | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 12d |
| 19307403 | Control Member For Adjusting Access Tube Position, and Related Systems and Methods | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — |
| 19052532 | LOCALIZED TRACKING OF A VERTEBRAL BODY OR OTHER ANATOMIC STRUCTURE | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | — |
| 19030735 | IMPLANT HAVING FILAMENT LIMBS OF AN ADJUSTABLE LOOP DISPOSED IN A SHUTTLE SUTURE | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | — |
| 18479044 | TANDEM ROD CONNECTORS AND RELATED METHODS | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | — |
| 18241597 | REAL-TIME TRACKING AND MONITORING OF ARRAYS FOR VERIFICATION | MALDONADO, STEVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 3 |
| 3773 | 2 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19307403 | Control Member For Adjusting Access Tube Position, and Related Systems and Methods | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19052532 | LOCALIZED TRACKING OF A VERTEBRAL BODY OR OTHER ANATOMIC STRUCTURE | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 3797 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19030735 | IMPLANT HAVING FILAMENT LIMBS OF AN ADJUSTABLE LOOP DISPOSED IN A SHUTTLE SUTURE | IGBOKO, CHIMA U | — | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18479044 | TANDEM ROD CONNECTORS AND RELATED METHODS | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2023 |
| 18466192 | MODULAR CONNECTOR ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS OF USE | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 3773 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18241597 | REAL-TIME TRACKING AND MONITORING OF ARRAYS FOR VERIFICATION | MALDONADO, STEVEN | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18061760 | LASER TRAJECTORY MARKER | SIRCAR, ALISHA JITENDRA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17935192 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GUIDING A SURGICAL ACCESS DEVICE | KLEIN, BROOKE L | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2022 |
| 17930083 | EXPANDABLE INTERVERTEBRAL IMPLANT, INSERTER INSTRUMENT, AND RELATED METHODS | SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2022 |
| 17000965 | IMPLANT HOLDER | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 603d overdue | Pending | Aug 24, 2020 |
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