Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stryker Corporation has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners and 2 art units, so the active work is divided between separate examination paths.
WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. That assignment represents one part of the docket, making examiner-specific preparation relevant for both matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 1 | 80.6% | +17.2% |
| HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 1 | 32.1% | +37.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18402914 | Patient Reregistration Systems and Methods | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18184796 | Bone Resection Scoring and Planning | HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18402914 | Patient Reregistration Systems and Methods | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 26d |
| 18184796 | Bone Resection Scoring and Planning | HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18402914 | Patient Reregistration Systems and Methods | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18184796 | Bone Resection Scoring and Planning | HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 2188 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialStryker Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jr, Larry E Waggle has the most, with 1 of Stryker Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
