Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
9 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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. 9 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 | 7 (78%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 2 | 82.1% | +13.0% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.2% | +17.0% |
| NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | 1 | 88.9% | +10.6% |
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.2% | +48.7% |
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 78.1% | +18.9% |
| COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 1 | 68.9% | +32.2% |
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 1 | 70.0% | +24.7% |
| COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 1 | 72.0% | +25.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781393 | POROUS INTERBODY SPACER | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 188d overdue |
| 18963046 | EXPANDABLE AND CONFORMING SPINAL IMPLANT | NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | 43d overdue |
| 19056478 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLEXURE-BASED STANDALONE INTERBODY FUSION | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18781393 | POROUS INTERBODY SPACER | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 188d overdue |
| 18284802 | STABLENEC STANDALONE INTERBODY | BATES, DAVID W | 100d overdue |
| 18963046 | EXPANDABLE AND CONFORMING SPINAL IMPLANT | NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | 43d overdue |
| 18917893 | ADD-ON COUPLER FOR MEDICAL IMPLANT REVISION | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 36d overdue |
| 18785658 | Expanding, Conforming Interbody Spacer | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 5d |
| 18828985 | PRESS-ON LINK FOR SURGICAL SCREWS | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 8d |
| 18727569 | REVISION SYSTEM FOR SPINAL IMPLANTS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 14d |
| 18236730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURELY ATTACHING AN ANCHOR TO AN IMPLANT BODY | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 4 |
| 3773 | 4 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19056478 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLEXURE-BASED STANDALONE INTERBODY FUSION | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18284802 | STABLENEC STANDALONE INTERBODY | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 100d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18963046 | EXPANDABLE AND CONFORMING SPINAL IMPLANT | NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18917893 | ADD-ON COUPLER FOR MEDICAL IMPLANT REVISION | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18828985 | PRESS-ON LINK FOR SURGICAL SCREWS | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18785658 | Expanding, Conforming Interbody Spacer | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18781393 | POROUS INTERBODY SPACER | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 188d overdue | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18727569 | REVISION SYSTEM FOR SPINAL IMPLANTS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §102 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18236730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURELY ATTACHING AN ANCHOR TO AN IMPLANT BODY | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
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