Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Synthes GmbH has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating separate examination paths.
JONES, DIANA S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The workload is divided between the examiner relationships. Counsel should manage the matters separately while checking that medical-device terminology and claim strategy remain consistent.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, DIANA S | 1 | 75.1% | +20.3% |
| PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 71.1% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039438 | SURGICAL TOOL AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A SURGICAL TOOL | JONES, DIANA S | — |
| 19010965 | USER INTERFACE FOR STRUT DEVICE | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039438 | SURGICAL TOOL AND ROBOTIC SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A SURGICAL TOOL | JONES, DIANA S | 3775 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19010965 | USER INTERFACE FOR STRUT DEVICE | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 3773 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSynthes GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Diana S Jones has the most, with 1 of Synthes GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
