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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spectrum Spine Ip Holdings Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused point of contact within the patent office. For a company operating in the technical fields of medical devices and mechanical engineering, this concentration means that the immediate success of their patent prosecution rests on a singular interaction rather than a broad portfolio of diverse applications. The alignment of 1 examiner and 1 art unit suggests that the subject matter is specialized and has not yet branched into multiple technical classifications.
The specific examiner assigned to this case is HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA, who is also listed as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending action in total, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload. This creates a scenario where the practitioner can focus resources on understanding the specific examination style and prior art preferences of HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the communication path but also focuses the success of the active filing on a single set of examiner expectations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 1 | 78.3% | +11.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18488486 | IMPLANT FUSION DEVICE WITH ENHANCED OSTEOINDUCTIVITY | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 32d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18488486 | IMPLANT FUSION DEVICE WITH ENHANCED OSTEOINDUCTIVITY | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18488486 | IMPLANT FUSION DEVICE WITH ENHANCED OSTEOINDUCTIVITY | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSpectrum Spine Ip Holdings Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ellen Christina Hammond has the most, with 1 of Spectrum Spine Ip Holdings Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
