Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nanohive Medical LLC has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners but remain within 1 distinct art unit. This combination suggests a shared technical environment with examiner-specific prosecution paths, allowing counsel to develop common terminology while tailoring arguments to each individual record.
WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger identified share of the docket, so management should focus on consistent review standards rather than a single examiner strategy. The medical-device setting supports organizing claim charts around structural limitations, functional interactions, and the specific distinction asserted in each response.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 1 | 61.0% | +39.1% |
| PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 64.9% | +19.1% |
| DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | 1 | 82.1% | +11.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17985367 | VARIABLE DEPTH IMPLANTS | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751839 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE STRUCTURES FOR IMPLANTS | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 56d |
| 18828316 | FEATURES FOR IMPLANTS WITH A REDUCED VOLUMETRIC DENSITY OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | — |
| 17985367 | VARIABLE DEPTH IMPLANTS | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18828316 | FEATURES FOR IMPLANTS WITH A REDUCED VOLUMETRIC DENSITY OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18751839 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE STRUCTURES FOR IMPLANTS | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 17985367 | VARIABLE DEPTH IMPLANTS | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | 3774 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNanohive Medical LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Megan Yarnall Wolf has the most, with 1 of Nanohive Medical LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
