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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ortoma AB has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, GIBSON, ERIC SHANE, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical and administrative footprint for the company's current patent filings.
The presence of 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner means that the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated on a single matter. GIBSON, ERIC SHANE is the only examiner the company is currently interacting with for this technology area. This alignment of 1 art unit and 1 examiner suggests a direct and uncomplicated prosecution environment for the pending application. With no other active cases or examiners to manage, the applicant can dedicate all resources to addressing the specific requirements of this single examiner within the medical devices field.
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 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 1 | 85.4% | +17.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19055190 | Method and System for Computer Assisted Surgery | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19055190 | Method and System for Computer Assisted Surgery | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19055190 | Method and System for Computer Assisted Surgery | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 3775 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
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