Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
SurGenTec, LLC has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so examiner assignments are fully distributed while some technical units contain more than one action.
BLANCO, JAVIER G is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile favors separate examiner-specific preparation, with shared art-unit settings providing the available basis for coordinating technical issues.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANCO, JAVIER G | 1 | 76.1% | +45.2% |
| KU, SI MING | 1 | 72.8% | +32.8% |
| COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1 | 38.9% | +18.3% |
| YANG, ANDREW | 1 | 84.3% | +10.4% |
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 1 | 15.4% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18950893 | BONE GRAFT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | YANG, ANDREW | 28d |
| 19417881 | JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | BLANCO, JAVIER G | — |
| 18079710 | SACROILIAC JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18950893 | BONE GRAFT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | YANG, ANDREW | 28d |
| 19417881 | JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | BLANCO, JAVIER G | — |
| 19075049 | BONE GRAFT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | KU, SI MING | — |
| 19047054 | SYNTHETIC BONE GRAFT AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| 3775 | 2 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19417881 | JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | BLANCO, JAVIER G | 3774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19075049 | BONE GRAFT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19047054 | SYNTHETIC BONE GRAFT AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | COUGHLIN, DANIEL F | 1619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18950893 | BONE GRAFT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SAME | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18079710 | SACROILIAC JOINT STABILIZATION SYSTEM | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSurGenTec, LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Javier G Blanco has the most, with 1 of SurGenTec, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
