Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 2 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shukla Medical manages a portfolio with 8 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. SIPP, AMY R. is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 pending actions.
The number of 8 pending office actions is higher than the count of art units. This distribution indicates a prosecution effort involving 7 examiners, which is a higher count than the art units. Practitioners should prepare for varied examiner styles given that the 8 pending cases are reviewed by multiple individuals.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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. | 2 | 71.1% | +25.6% |
| SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 1 | 73.6% | +19.0% |
| HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 1 | 78.2% | +11.4% |
| NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | 1 | 89.0% | +10.5% |
| KU, SI MING | 1 | 72.7% | +32.7% |
| WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 1 | 80.6% | +17.3% |
| KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 1 | 58.4% | +37.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18948215 | SURGICAL RETRACTOR | NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18057253 | SURGICAL EXTRACTOR | SIPP, AMY R. | 26d |
| 18971979 | SURGICAL RETRACTOR | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | — |
| 18923955 | STRIKING APPARATUS FOR A MEDICAL EXTRACTING TOOL | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | — |
| 18643298 | GOUGER GRASPER DEVICE | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18057253 | SURGICAL EXTRACTOR | SIPP, AMY R. | 26d |
| 19093527 | EXTRACTOR DEVICE | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| 18971979 | SURGICAL RETRACTOR | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | — |
| 18948215 | SURGICAL RETRACTOR | NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | — |
| 18931568 | IMPLANT EXTRACTOR | KU, SI MING | — |
| 18923955 | STRIKING APPARATUS FOR A MEDICAL EXTRACTING TOOL | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | — |
| 18643298 | GOUGER GRASPER DEVICE | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — |
| 17724719 | GLENOSPHERE BASE REMOVAL TOOL | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 5 |
| 3773 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19093527 | EXTRACTOR DEVICE | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 18971979 | SURGICAL RETRACTOR | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18948215 | SURGICAL RETRACTOR | NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18931568 | IMPLANT EXTRACTOR | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18923955 | STRIKING APPARATUS FOR A MEDICAL EXTRACTING TOOL | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 3775 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18643298 | GOUGER GRASPER DEVICE | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 3775 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18057253 | SURGICAL EXTRACTOR | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17724719 | GLENOSPHERE BASE REMOVAL TOOL | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 20, 2022 |
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