Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Roger P. Jackson has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 4 examiners and 2 art units, indicating that prosecution is not confined to a single examination channel.
MATTHEWS, TESSA M is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. Counsel can use that concentration to prioritize review of the issues assigned to that examiner while maintaining separate strategies for the remaining examination activity.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3 | 82.9% | +24.0% |
| COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 1 | 86.6% | -8.3% |
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.5% | +48.1% |
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 1 | 70.1% | +24.1% |
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.0% | +12.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19031019 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH TOP LOADED PRESS-IN-PLACE INSERT | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 14d |
| 19438100 | MEDICAL IMPLANT THREADED PLUG HAVING A LEADING FACE START STRUCTURE WITH CONCAVE AND CONVEX SURFACES | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19446609 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19313694 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19275832 | SPLAY LIMITING CLOSURES FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR RECEIVERS WITH HORIZONTAL CURVATE EXTENDING INSTRUMENT ENGAGING GROOVES | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210523 | BOTTOM-LOADED PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 7d |
| 19031019 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH TOP LOADED PRESS-IN-PLACE INSERT | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 14d |
| 19446609 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19326081 | LOCKABLE PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY HAVING PRE-LOCK FIXED FORCED DOWNWARD DISPLACEMENT OF INSERT BY TOOLING | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
| 19313694 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19275832 | SPLAY LIMITING CLOSURES FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR RECEIVERS WITH HORIZONTAL CURVATE EXTENDING INSTRUMENT ENGAGING GROOVES | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 6 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19446609 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2026 |
| 19438100 | MEDICAL IMPLANT THREADED PLUG HAVING A LEADING FACE START STRUCTURE WITH CONCAVE AND CONVEX SURFACES | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 3773 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 19326081 | LOCKABLE PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY HAVING PRE-LOCK FIXED FORCED DOWNWARD DISPLACEMENT OF INSERT BY TOOLING | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19313694 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19275832 | SPLAY LIMITING CLOSURES FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR RECEIVERS WITH HORIZONTAL CURVATE EXTENDING INSTRUMENT ENGAGING GROOVES | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19210523 | BOTTOM-LOADED PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19031019 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH TOP LOADED PRESS-IN-PLACE INSERT | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialRoger P. Jackson has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Tessa M Matthews has the most, with 3 of Roger P. Jackson's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
