Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating separate examiner and technical-unit contexts.
HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since the identified workload is limited to that matter, counsel should use matter-specific responses rather than a portfolio strategy centered on one examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 1 | 78.3% | +11.4% |
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +26.0% |
| RAMANA, ANURADHA | 1 | 82.8% | +22.3% |
| CHANDRA, GYAN | 1 | 71.3% | +27.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18468050 | Hook-Spring Plate for Growth Modulation of Immature Rib to Correct Early Onset Scoliosis | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 73d overdue |
| 18960993 | ORTHOPEDIC CABLE BONE TRANSPORT DEVICE AND BONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM COMPRISING SAID DEVICE | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | — |
| 18628192 | Bone Reshaping Tool and Method | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18468050 | Hook-Spring Plate for Growth Modulation of Immature Rib to Correct Early Onset Scoliosis | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 73d overdue |
| 18960993 | ORTHOPEDIC CABLE BONE TRANSPORT DEVICE AND BONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM COMPRISING SAID DEVICE | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | — |
| 18628192 | Bone Reshaping Tool and Method | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
| 18334212 | Compositions and Methods for Treating Osteonecrosis | CHANDRA, GYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 2 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18960993 | ORTHOPEDIC CABLE BONE TRANSPORT DEVICE AND BONE TRANSPORT SYSTEM COMPRISING SAID DEVICE | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18628192 | Bone Reshaping Tool and Method | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18468050 | Hook-Spring Plate for Growth Modulation of Immature Rib to Correct Early Onset Scoliosis | RAMANA, ANURADHA | 3775 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18334212 | Compositions and Methods for Treating Osteonecrosis | CHANDRA, GYAN | 3783 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTexas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Ellen Christina Hammond has the most, with 1 of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
