Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 4 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Orthosensor Inc. shows a high volume of activity with 12 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct art units, which suggests the portfolio covers several specialized mechanical or medical sub-sectors.
The company interacts with 11 distinct examiners to manage these filings. JUSTIN XU is the busiest examiner in this group, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. The remaining office actions are distributed among the other examiners, highlighting a broad interface with the patent office staff.
With 12 pending office actions and 11 distinct examiners, the portfolio demonstrates a high degree of examiner diversity. The concentration in 4 distinct art units indicates that while the examiners vary, the core technology remains focused within specific examination divisions. JUSTIN XU's role as the busiest examiner with 2 pending actions represents the only point of examiner consolidation in the current docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 5 (42%) |
| §103 only | 2 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, JUSTIN | 2 | 60.2% | +36.7% |
| TRAN, VI N | 1 | 46.4% | +34.1% |
| RAMANA, ANURADHA | 1 | 82.7% | +22.4% |
| SHAH, JAY B | 1 | 57.8% | +6.5% |
| PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 1 | 53.5% | +31.1% |
| LIU, CHU CHUAN | 1 | 71.2% | +14.8% |
| ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 1 | 25.9% | +34.2% |
| HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 1 | 41.4% | +52.1% |
| KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 1 | 48.7% | +70.4% |
| HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 1 | 57.8% | +34.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18139442 | Implant Component Recognition In Joint Implants | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 13d |
| 18142689 | Estimation Of Joint Replacement Poses From Magnetic Field Readings | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 20d |
| 18201489 | Implant Authentication and Connectivity | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 30d |
| 18473817 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING IMPLANTABLE SENSORS | TRAN, VI N | — |
| 18452689 | IMPLANTABLE SENSOR MULTI-SCREW SYSTEM AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | — |
| 18210809 | Patellar Tendonitis Detection | SHAH, JAY B | — |
| 18328168 | Implant Detachment Detection | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | — |
| 18320832 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND OUTCOMES | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18139442 | Implant Component Recognition In Joint Implants | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 13d |
| 18136411 | Implant With Sensor Redundancy | XU, JUSTIN | 14d |
| 18142689 | Estimation Of Joint Replacement Poses From Magnetic Field Readings | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 20d |
| 18201489 | Implant Authentication and Connectivity | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 30d |
| 18131594 | Implant With Sensor Diagnostics | XU, JUSTIN | 30d |
| 18473817 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING IMPLANTABLE SENSORS | TRAN, VI N | — |
| 18452689 | IMPLANTABLE SENSOR MULTI-SCREW SYSTEM AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | — |
| 18328168 | Implant Detachment Detection | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 9 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18473817 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING IMPLANTABLE SENSORS | TRAN, VI N | 2117 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18452689 | IMPLANTABLE SENSOR MULTI-SCREW SYSTEM AND RELATED DEVICES AND METHODS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 3775 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18210809 | Patellar Tendonitis Detection | SHAH, JAY B | 3791 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18328168 | Implant Detachment Detection | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 3791 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18201489 | Implant Authentication and Connectivity | LIU, CHU CHUAN | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18320832 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND OUTCOMES | ORTEGA, MARTIN NATHAN | 3791 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18196005 | Portable Kinematic Joint Tracking System | HOFFPAUIR, ANDREW ELI | 3786 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18142689 | Estimation Of Joint Replacement Poses From Magnetic Field Readings | KIM, SAMUEL CHONG | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 18139442 | Implant Component Recognition In Joint Implants | HEALY, NOAH MICHAEL | 3791 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 18136411 | Implant With Sensor Redundancy | XU, JUSTIN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18131594 | Implant With Sensor Diagnostics | XU, JUSTIN | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
| 18183638 | Implant Stability Measurement | WARSI, YASMEEN S | 3791 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
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