Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while individual examiner styles may vary, the technical standards applied to the applications remain consistent within a specialized group.
BLASS, PARIS MARIE is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active in the portfolio. The use of 1 distinct art unit for the active matters allows the applicant to develop a unified technical narrative even when dealing with the 2 distinct examiners. This structure requires the applicant to manage separate examiner relationships while adhering to the specific guidelines of the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 1 | 54.5% | +39.6% |
| DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 1 | 48.1% | +45.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17854061 | ACL REPAIR METHOD USING FEMORAL ATTACHMENT | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17854098 | ARTHROSCOPIC ACL REPAIR SYSTEM AND METHOD | DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
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