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
Orthoiq Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is located within 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. The company's current engagement with the patent office is limited to this single active prosecution, making it the focal point of their intellectual property strategy.
HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE is the busiest examiner, holding the 1 pending office action. For practitioners, this means that the company's immediate patent goals in the medical device sector are tied to the results of this specific examination. Understanding the examiner's specific approach to mechanical engineering claims will be critical for a successful outcome, as there are no other active matters to provide a baseline for comparison.
The concentration of 1 pending office action with 1 examiner in 1 art unit allows for a very targeted and resource-intensive prosecution effort. A practitioner can focus entirely on the specific feedback from HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE without the need to coordinate with other examiners or units. However, this also means that the company's current success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is entirely dependent on the outcome of this single case.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | 1 | 67.6% | +28.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19543732 | IMPLANT STABILITY SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD | HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19543732 | IMPLANT STABILITY SENSOR SYSTEM AND METHOD | HOFFA, ANGELA MARIE | 3799 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2026 |
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