Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Responsive Arthroscopy Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. While these actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, they are both located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the individual reviewers differ, the technological classification and the overarching administrative standards of the applications remain consistent across the current portfolio. The company's mechanical engineering intellectual property is being evaluated under a unified set of art unit standards despite the different individual perspectives of the examiners involved.
SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This is 1 of the 2 total pending office actions. Because the portfolio is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, the 2 distinct examiners are likely applying similar technical criteria. The presence of 2 distinct examiners ensures that the 2 pending office actions are not subject to the review of only 1 individual, even though they share 1 distinct art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 1 | 78.4% | +21.7% |
| HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 1 | 68.7% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18335103 | ALL-SUTURE ANCHOR | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 45d overdue |
| 18335911 | PUSH-IN SUTURE ANCHOR SYSTEM | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 19d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18335103 | ALL-SUTURE ANCHOR | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 45d overdue |
| 18335911 | PUSH-IN SUTURE ANCHOR SYSTEM | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18335911 | PUSH-IN SUTURE ANCHOR SYSTEM | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 3771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18335103 | ALL-SUTURE ANCHOR | HOLWERDA, KATHLEEN SONNETT | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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