Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stryker Corporation currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of all pending work into a single art unit suggests a focused examination environment, even though multiple examiners are involved in the review process. This structure allows the applicant to potentially encounter consistent prior art applications across the portfolio.
WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners each responsible for 1 of the 2 pending actions, the workload is evenly split. For a practitioner, this distribution means that prosecution strategies can be tailored to the specific tendencies of each examiner while remaining within the procedural norms of a single art unit. The presence of 2 pending office actions indicates a relatively small but active phase of prosecution for the company's medical device interests. Managing these 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit requires a balanced approach to ensure that arguments presented in one case do not conflict with the other.
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% | +17.3% |
| HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW | 1 | 31.5% | +37.5% |
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 |
| 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 | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
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