Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tornier operates a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently faces 1 pending office action. This prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow channel of current examination activity. Such a focused prosecution profile often indicates that the company is prioritizing a specific invention or a key update to its existing medical device technology within the 1 distinct art unit.
NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. She is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure accounts for the total 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio, meaning the company's current interactions are limited to NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA. For the legal team, this concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio but also places significant emphasis on the specific examination style of this individual. Success in this matter will depend on addressing the specific technical concerns raised by the 1 distinct examiner within the designated technology area.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA | 1 | 66.7% | +0.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18393827 | PROSTHESIS FOR A FRACTURED LONG BONE | NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTornier has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Renee Florencia Nerenberg has the most, with 1 of Tornier's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
