Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rtg Scientific LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units, which indicates that at least two of the examiners are likely working within the same technical department. This structure provides the company with multiple perspectives on their medical device applications.
SIPP, AMY R. is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Because the total pending count is 3, the workload is split among the 3 distinct examiners. This distribution across 2 art units allows the company to receive feedback from different reviewers while focusing on a specific range of mechanical engineering technologies. Practitioners should monitor the interactions within the shared art unit to identify any consistent departmental trends that might affect the pending cases.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +26.0% |
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 82.9% | +24.0% |
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.5% | +48.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19199622 | BONE FIXATION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND INSTRUMENTS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 15d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17555391 | FASTENING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 8d overdue |
| 19199622 | BONE FIXATION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND INSTRUMENTS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 15d |
| 19252910 | SOFT TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 2 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19252910 | SOFT TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19199622 | BONE FIXATION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND INSTRUMENTS | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 17555391 | FASTENING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialRtg Scientific LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Amy R. Sipp has the most, with 1 of Rtg Scientific LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
