Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Octagon Spine LLC is managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active case is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution effort. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering suggests a specialized technical scope for the company's current patent activity.
The busiest examiner for the company is MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Having the busiest examiner pending count at 1 matches the total pending office actions for the company, showing that no other examiners are currently reviewing active cases. This 1 point of contact allows for a direct prosecution path through the patent office.
For practitioners, this data indicates that the outcome of the company's current patent efforts depends on the interaction with MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L. With 1 pending office action, the portfolio is in a state of minimal active expansion. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative task of tracking deadlines within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.5% | +48.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18813280 | EXPANDABLE INTERVERTEBRAL CAGE WITH MULTI-CYCLING FLEXURES | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18813280 | EXPANDABLE INTERVERTEBRAL CAGE WITH MULTI-CYCLING FLEXURES | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18813280 | EXPANDABLE INTERVERTEBRAL CAGE WITH MULTI-CYCLING FLEXURES | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
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