Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Optimotion Implants LLC is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are located in 2 distinct art units, meaning each matter is being reviewed by a different technical group. The portfolio also involves 2 distinct examiners, with JESSICA WEISS identified as the busiest examiner holding 1 pending office action. This lack of overlap in the 2 art units and examiners indicates that each case is being handled as an independent matter.
With 2 pending actions and 2 examiners, there is no shared history or technical group to leverage across the current prosecution pipeline. Each case represents a unique set of technical and procedural challenges within the medical devices field. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of each of the 2 art units to advance these applications. The presence of different examiners ensures that the company's current patent efforts are subject to two different sets of individual reviews, requiring a tailored approach for each matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISS, JESSICA | 1 | 81.0% | +33.0% |
| STEWART, ALVIN J | 1 | 82.1% | +0.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18431954 | KNEE PROSTHESIS | STEWART, ALVIN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19183300 | MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT RETRACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WEISS, JESSICA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19183300 | MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT RETRACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WEISS, JESSICA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19183300 | MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT RETRACTOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WEISS, JESSICA | 3775 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 18431954 | KNEE PROSTHESIS | STEWART, ALVIN J | 3799 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2024 |
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