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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ortho Development Corporation currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is under the review of JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. The portfolio's activity is concentrated in 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing the focus for its 1 pending office action.
With 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's pending intellectual property is being evaluated within a specific technical framework. The fact that JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T is the only examiner with a pending action means that the company's immediate success in the patent office depends on the resolution of this 1 case. This allows for a prosecution approach that addresses the requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field without the distraction of multiple pending actions across different examiners. The 1 pending office action constitutes the entire active portfolio for the company, requiring a response that is specifically aligned with the expectations of JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 1 | 63.8% | +30.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19090301 | DOUBLE TULIP SPINAL FIXATION CONNECTORS AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19090301 | DOUBLE TULIP SPINAL FIXATION CONNECTORS AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19090301 | DOUBLE TULIP SPINAL FIXATION CONNECTORS AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 3773 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
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