Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Orthopediatrics Corp. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is reviewed by a different person. These applications are spread across 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's prosecution efforts involve multiple reviewers but maintain some technical overlap within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
YANG, ANDREW is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This is the same number of pending actions assigned to the other 2 distinct examiners. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 total actions, the workload is balanced across the involved personnel. The presence of 2 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions suggests that at least two of the applications are technically related enough to be reviewed within the same specialized division at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, ANDREW | 1 | 84.3% | +10.5% |
| LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 1 | 80.5% | +16.3% |
| SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 1 | 68.3% | +43.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18918945 | HANDLE FOR REDUCING LENGTH OF BONE SCREWDRIVER BIT | YANG, ANDREW | — |
| 18856788 | SPINAL ROD AND SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18918945 | HANDLE FOR REDUCING LENGTH OF BONE SCREWDRIVER BIT | YANG, ANDREW | — |
| 18856788 | SPINAL ROD AND SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | — |
| 18796724 | DUAL TETHER SUPPORT OF VERTEBRA | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18918945 | HANDLE FOR REDUCING LENGTH OF BONE SCREWDRIVER BIT | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18856788 | SPINAL ROD AND SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 3773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18796724 | DUAL TETHER SUPPORT OF VERTEBRA | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
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