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
Signature Orthopaedics Europe Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL, and 1 distinct art unit. WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, representing the company's total active prosecution. This single mechanical engineering case is the sole focus of the company's current office interactions, which allows for a highly specialized legal approach.
The concentration of the 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner means that the company's immediate success depends on navigating the specific preferences of WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL. Because the case is situated in 1 distinct art unit, practitioners can focus their research on the specific technical guidelines relevant to that group. This centralized structure minimizes the complexity of managing multiple examiners but also places significant weight on the outcome of this single medical device matter. Effective prosecution will require a strategy that directly addresses the 1 distinct art unit's standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 1 | 61.0% | +39.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18167296 | A Mechanically Secured Plastic Patellar Prosthesis | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 69d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18167296 | A Mechanically Secured Plastic Patellar Prosthesis | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18167296 | A Mechanically Secured Plastic Patellar Prosthesis | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 3774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSignature Orthopaedics Europe Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Megan Yarnall Wolf has the most, with 1 of Signature Orthopaedics Europe Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
