Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Providence Medical Technology Inc. has 13 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The workload spans 6 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating substantial pending activity concentrated within a narrow technical assignment structure.
RAMANA, ANURADHA is the busiest examiner, handling 4 pending matters. That concentration makes this examiner a central point for portfolio monitoring, interview planning, and assessment of recurring objections. Counsel should coordinate prosecution positions across the two art units while distinguishing claim-specific issues and preserving a clear record for each matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (58%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAMANA, ANURADHA | 4 | 82.8% | +22.3% |
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3 | 77.7% | +19.1% |
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 2 | 82.9% | +24.0% |
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.0% | +12.2% |
| PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 71.1% | +39.4% |
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.5% | +48.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19025161 | FACET SCREW AND DELIVERY DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 42d overdue |
| 18375792 | FACET SCREW AND DELIVERY DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 19d overdue |
| 19027855 | CERVICAL DISTRACTION METHOD | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 5d overdue |
| 19028373 | FACET JOINT IMPLANTS AND DELIVERY TOOLS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18288641 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LUMBAR FUSION | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 27d |
| 19028821 | VERTEBRAL JOINT IMPLANTS AND DELIVERY TOOLS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | — |
| 18950286 | VERTEBRAL JOINT ACCESS AND DECORTICATION DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING | RAMANA, ANURADHA | — |
| 18380371 | SPINAL FIXATION ACCESS AND DELIVERY SYSTEM | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | — |
| 17266704 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZATION OF A SPINAL SURGICAL SITE | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19025161 | FACET SCREW AND DELIVERY DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 42d overdue |
| 18375792 | FACET SCREW AND DELIVERY DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 19d overdue |
| 19027855 | CERVICAL DISTRACTION METHOD | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 5d overdue |
| 17620943 | SPINAL FACET IMPLANT AND DELIVERY TOOLS | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 12d |
| 18653309 | LATERAL MASS FIXATION IMPLANT | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 14d |
| 18288641 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LUMBAR FUSION | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 27d |
| 18284939 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRECTION OF SPINE DEFORMATION | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 63d |
| 19028373 | FACET JOINT IMPLANTS AND DELIVERY TOOLS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 8 |
| 3775 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19028373 | FACET JOINT IMPLANTS AND DELIVERY TOOLS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 3775 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19027855 | CERVICAL DISTRACTION METHOD | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 3775 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19028821 | VERTEBRAL JOINT IMPLANTS AND DELIVERY TOOLS | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 3775 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025161 | FACET SCREW AND DELIVERY DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18950286 | VERTEBRAL JOINT ACCESS AND DECORTICATION DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 3775 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18653309 | LATERAL MASS FIXATION IMPLANT | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18288641 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LUMBAR FUSION | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18380371 | SPINAL FIXATION ACCESS AND DELIVERY SYSTEM | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18375792 | FACET SCREW AND DELIVERY DEVICE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18284939 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRECTION OF SPINE DEFORMATION | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 17620943 | SPINAL FACET IMPLANT AND DELIVERY TOOLS | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 20, 2021 |
| 17266704 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZATION OF A SPINAL SURGICAL SITE | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialProvidence Medical Technology Inc. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 6 examiners.
Anuradha Ramana has the most, with 4 of Providence Medical Technology Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
