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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Orthofix US LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, representing the full extent of the company's current pending prosecution. With only 1 pending office action active, the company's immediate success in this technology area depends entirely on the review of this single examiner within one art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 1 | 78.2% | +11.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19227142 | FRICTION-FIT IMPLANTABLE DEVICES AND ASSEMBLIES | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19227142 | FRICTION-FIT IMPLANTABLE DEVICES AND ASSEMBLIES | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19227142 | FRICTION-FIT IMPLANTABLE DEVICES AND ASSEMBLIES | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
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