Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Stryker Corporation

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (60%)
2
Easy (40%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (60%)
§112 only1 (20%)
Double-patenting only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
1
Business / Other
20% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 1 73.6% +29.9%
GIBSON, ERIC SHANE 1 85.6% +16.8%
ARNOLD, ERNST V 1 48.0% +12.9%
BOR, HELENE CATHERINE 1 51.1% +30.0%
DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES 1 78.2% +13.2%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18905383 Spinal Implants GIBSON, ERIC SHANE 86d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18205399 Hemostatic Foam ARNOLD, ERNST V 36d overdue
18974893 Floating Locking Insert LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 15d overdue
18121727 Stereotactic Computer Assisted Surgery Method and System BOR, HELENE CATHERINE 30d
18174335 System And Method For Spinal Implant Placement DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES 84d
18905383 Spinal Implants GIBSON, ERIC SHANE 86d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3619 1
3775 1
1613 1
3797 1
3993 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18974893 Floating Locking Insert LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 3619 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 10, 2024
18905383 Spinal Implants GIBSON, ERIC SHANE 3775 §112 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Oct 03, 2024
18205399 Hemostatic Foam ARNOLD, ERNST V 1613 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18121727 Stereotactic Computer Assisted Surgery Method and System BOR, HELENE CATHERINE 3797 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Mar 15, 2023
18174335 System And Method For Spinal Implant Placement DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES 3993 DP Non-Final OA 84d Pending Feb 24, 2023

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