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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Miach Orthopaedics Inc. operates a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 2 pending office actions. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, yet they are both situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a centralized technical oversight.
BLASS, PARIS MARIE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners involved, the workload is split evenly between the examiners. This arrangement means that while the technical oversight is centralized in 1 distinct art unit, the individual examination styles will vary.
Practitioners should prepare for different examiner perspectives while adhering to the general standards of the single art unit involved. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that no single individual manages more than half of the pending workload. This structure requires a practitioner to maintain two separate lines of communication within the same administrative division of the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 1 | 48.1% | +45.2% |
| BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 1 | 57.1% | +42.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17854061 | ACL REPAIR METHOD USING FEMORAL ATTACHMENT | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 49d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17854061 | ACL REPAIR METHOD USING FEMORAL ATTACHMENT | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 49d overdue |
| 17854098 | ARTHROSCOPIC ACL REPAIR SYSTEM AND METHOD | DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17854098 | ARTHROSCOPIC ACL REPAIR SYSTEM AND METHOD | DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17854061 | ACL REPAIR METHOD USING FEMORAL ATTACHMENT | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMiach Orthopaedics Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Teresa Marie Dudden has the most, with 1 of Miach Orthopaedics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
