Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Roger P. Jackson has 9 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 6 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates a high concentration of matters within a very small number of art units. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the 9 pending office actions involve technology that is closely related within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
MATTHEWS, TESSA M is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is handling 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This concentration is notable given the 9 total pending office actions and the 6 distinct examiners involved. While MATTHEWS, TESSA M manages multiple cases, the remaining actions are split among the other 6 distinct examiners. This level of concentration provides a degree of examiner level consistency for a portion of the portfolio. However, the overall prosecution still requires managing relationships across 2 distinct art units to address all 9 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 4 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 2 | 68.5% | +48.2% |
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 2 | 70.1% | +24.2% |
| COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 1 | 86.5% | -8.4% |
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 83.0% | +24.3% |
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.2% | +11.8% |
| SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 1 | 68.3% | +43.8% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19326081 | LOCKABLE PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY HAVING PRE-LOCK FIXED FORCED DOWNWARD DISPLACEMENT OF INSERT BY TOOLING | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
| 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 7 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 |
| 19326081 | LOCKABLE PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY HAVING PRE-LOCK FIXED FORCED DOWNWARD DISPLACEMENT OF INSERT BY TOOLING | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
| 19275832 | SPLAY LIMITING CLOSURES FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR RECEIVERS WITH HORIZONTAL CURVATE EXTENDING INSTRUMENT ENGAGING GROOVES | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19234110 | SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM WITH RECEIVER AND INSERT SUB-ASSEMBLIES FOR CONNECTING WITH BI-SPHERIC UNIVERSAL SHANK HEADS | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | — |
| 18794543 | BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH BONE DEBRIS SCRAPER RING ON SHANK HEAD | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | — |
| 18514962 | METHOD OF ASSEMBLING A PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY HAVING TWIST-IN-PLACE INSERT WITH FORCED DOWNWARD DISPLACEMENT | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 4 |
| 3775 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19275832 | SPLAY LIMITING CLOSURES FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR RECEIVERS WITH HORIZONTAL CURVATE EXTENDING INSTRUMENT ENGAGING GROOVES | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19234110 | SPINAL FIXATION SYSTEM WITH RECEIVER AND INSERT SUB-ASSEMBLIES FOR CONNECTING WITH BI-SPHERIC UNIVERSAL SHANK HEADS | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2025 |
| 19210523 | BOTTOM-LOADED PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §102 | Final Rejection | 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 |
| 18794543 | BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH BONE DEBRIS SCRAPER RING ON SHANK HEAD | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18514962 | METHOD OF ASSEMBLING A PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY HAVING TWIST-IN-PLACE INSERT WITH FORCED DOWNWARD DISPLACEMENT | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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