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
Signature Orthopaedics Europe Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the portfolio's current prosecution involves multiple technical or administrative tracks within the patent office.
The busiest examiner, KAMIKAWA, TRACY L, is handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is divided between two examiners. This split across 2 distinct examiners requires the practitioner to manage two separate sets of office communications and deadlines. Each of the 2 pending office actions may require a unique strategy based on the specific examiner's technical perspective.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the 2 pending office actions may be subject to different examination cultures or procedural requirements. Practitioners must tailor their strategies to the specific requirements of both 2 distinct art units. Successfully resolving the 1 action with KAMIKAWA, TRACY L is just one part of the overall strategy for the 2 pending office actions. The presence of 2 distinct examiners provides a level of diversification for the portfolio's prosecution progress.
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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