Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current legal efforts on a single examiner interaction. The matter is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a specific technical focus for the company's orthopedic innovations. This streamlined prosecution environment allows for a direct and focused response to the patent office's current findings.
Lynnsy M Summitt is the busiest examiner for Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for all of the company's current pending office actions, meaning the immediate success of the portfolio relies on addressing her specific concerns. Understanding Summitt's approach to Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications is essential for resolving the 1 pending action efficiently. Practitioners should tailor their prosecution strategy to meet the specific standards of the 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 1 | 68.3% | +43.8% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18400372 | Collet for a Polyaxial Screw Assembly | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18400372 | Collet for a Polyaxial Screw Assembly | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 3773 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
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