Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
10 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 4 (40%) |
| §112 only | 2 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (10%) |
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 | 4 | 83.1% | +24.0% |
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 2 | 70.1% | +24.3% |
| COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 1 | 86.5% | -8.4% |
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.2% | +11.7% |
| WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 1 | 82.1% | +13.2% |
| SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 1 | 68.2% | +43.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18341484 | BONE ANCHOR RECEIVERS WITH UPRIGHT ARMS HAVING HORIZONTAL CURVATE EXTENDING INSTRUMENT ENGAGING GROOVES AND THREADED CLOSURES ALLOWING FOR CONTROLLED SPLAY | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 14d |
| 19446609 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19438100 | MEDICAL IMPLANT THREADED PLUG HAVING A LEADING FACE START STRUCTURE WITH CONCAVE AND CONVEX SURFACES | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | — |
| 19313694 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19030977 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH NON-PIVOTING RETAINER HAVING DUAL OUTER CYLINDRICAL SURFACES | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | — |
| 18890667 | CLOSURE HAVING STRONG BALANCED SPLAY LIMITING THREAD FORMS FOR OPEN RECEIVER HOUSINGS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18827706 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH PRE-SECUREMENT OF AN INSERT INTO A RECEIVER | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 66d overdue |
| 19031019 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH TOP LOADED PRESS-IN-PLACE INSERT | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18827706 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH PRE-SECUREMENT OF AN INSERT INTO A RECEIVER | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 66d overdue |
| 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 |
| 18341484 | BONE ANCHOR RECEIVERS WITH UPRIGHT ARMS HAVING HORIZONTAL CURVATE EXTENDING INSTRUMENT ENGAGING GROOVES AND THREADED CLOSURES ALLOWING FOR CONTROLLED SPLAY | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 14d |
| 19446609 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19313694 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 19030977 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH NON-PIVOTING RETAINER HAVING DUAL OUTER CYLINDRICAL SURFACES | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | — |
| 18890667 | CLOSURE HAVING STRONG BALANCED SPLAY LIMITING THREAD FORMS FOR OPEN RECEIVER HOUSINGS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 7 |
| 3775 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19446609 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2026 |
| 19438100 | MEDICAL IMPLANT THREADED PLUG HAVING A LEADING FACE START STRUCTURE WITH CONCAVE AND CONVEX SURFACES | COMSTOCK, DAVID C | 3773 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 19313694 | SPLAY CONTROL CLOSURE FOR OPEN BONE ANCHOR | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
| 19210523 | BOTTOM-LOADED PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | Other | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19031019 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH TOP LOADED PRESS-IN-PLACE INSERT | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19030977 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH NON-PIVOTING RETAINER HAVING DUAL OUTER CYLINDRICAL SURFACES | WOODALL, NICHOLAS W | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18890667 | CLOSURE HAVING STRONG BALANCED SPLAY LIMITING THREAD FORMS FOR OPEN RECEIVER HOUSINGS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18827706 | PIVOTAL BONE ANCHOR ASSEMBLY WITH PRE-SECUREMENT OF AN INSERT INTO A RECEIVER | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 3773 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 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 |
| 18341484 | BONE ANCHOR RECEIVERS WITH UPRIGHT ARMS HAVING HORIZONTAL CURVATE EXTENDING INSTRUMENT ENGAGING GROOVES AND THREADED CLOSURES ALLOWING FOR CONTROLLED SPLAY | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
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