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
Stabiliz Orthopedics LLC holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active. This action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a focused prosecution effort within a specific orthopedic niche.
MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently focused on a single examiner and art unit, which centralizes the company's interactions with the patent office for its active filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.5% | +48.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17409728 | ANATOMIC EXTERNAL FIXATION DEVICE | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17409728 | ANATOMIC EXTERNAL FIXATION DEVICE | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2021 |
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