Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Osstemimplant Co. Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These active matters involve 3 distinct examiners, yet all are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are technically similar, even though they are being reviewed by different individuals.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ANDERSON, BRODERICK C, who is managing 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 3 pending office actions in total, each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for 1 case. This distribution ensures that no individual examiner carries a larger portion of the company's active workload than the others.
Practitioners should note that while the 3 pending office actions are all in 1 distinct art unit, the involvement of 3 distinct examiners requires a strategy that accounts for different personal review styles. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering remains the primary driver of the company's patent activity. This setup allows for a centralized understanding of art unit trends while managing 3 separate examiner interactions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, BRODERICK C | 1 | 74.4% | +18.3% |
| EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 1 | 50.6% | +32.5% |
| ELIAS, EARL L | 1 | 57.8% | +21.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263301 | Method and Device for Providing Medical Images for Identifying Regions of Interest | ANDERSON, BRODERICK C | — |
| 18265129 | CUSTOMIZED READY-MADE ABUTMENT | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263301 | Method and Device for Providing Medical Images for Identifying Regions of Interest | ANDERSON, BRODERICK C | — |
| 18265129 | CUSTOMIZED READY-MADE ABUTMENT | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | — |
| 18265051 | METHOD, DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DESIGNING, SELECTING, DELIVERING, OR IMPLANTING CUSTOMIZED READY-MADE ABUTMENT, OR PROVIDING INFORMATION RELATED THERETO | ELIAS, EARL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18263301 | Method and Device for Providing Medical Images for Identifying Regions of Interest | ANDERSON, BRODERICK C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18265129 | CUSTOMIZED READY-MADE ABUTMENT | EIDE, HEIDI MARIE | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18265051 | METHOD, DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DESIGNING, SELECTING, DELIVERING, OR IMPLANTING CUSTOMIZED READY-MADE ABUTMENT, OR PROVIDING INFORMATION RELATED THERETO | ELIAS, EARL L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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