Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Orthalign Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units and are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners. This distribution between pending actions, examiners, and art units indicates that every active matter is being handled in a different environment within the USPTO. This requires a unique prosecution strategy for each individual application, as there is no overlap in personnel or technical units.
LANE, HOLLY JOANNA is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. Because the 3 pending actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, there is no concentration of cases under any single official. The 3 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's medical device innovations are technically diverse enough to trigger review by 3 different specialized groups. For a portfolio with 3 pending actions, this level of dispersion across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units is significant and requires careful management of each separate case to ensure consistency.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 1 | 80.8% | +16.2% |
| BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
| WILLSE, DAVID H | 1 | 67.3% | +14.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19221251 | REUSABLE COVER FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION DEVICE | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | — |
| 19025875 | HIP SURGERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18805951 | HIP REPLACEMENT NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | WILLSE, DAVID H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19221251 | REUSABLE COVER FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION DEVICE | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | — |
| 19025875 | HIP SURGERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18805951 | HIP REPLACEMENT NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | WILLSE, DAVID H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19221251 | REUSABLE COVER FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION DEVICE | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 3773 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19025875 | HIP SURGERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 3775 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18805951 | HIP REPLACEMENT NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | WILLSE, DAVID H | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialOrthalign Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Holly Joanna Lane has the most, with 1 of Orthalign Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
