Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trilliant Surgical LLC has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, which means that each pending matter is assigned to a different individual. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's medical and mechanical innovations are categorized into two different technical groups at the USPTO. This distribution requires the company to manage interactions with multiple examiners simultaneously.
The busiest examiner is YANG, ANDREW, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners holds exactly 1 pending office action, YANG, ANDREW shares the busiest workload with the other two examiners. For practitioners, this means there is no concentration of influence in the current pending portfolio. Each of the 3 pending office actions must be prosecuted as an independent interaction with a unique examiner, although the 2 distinct art units provide some technical commonality across the cases.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, ANDREW | 1 | 84.3% | +10.4% |
| BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
| WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL | 1 | 45.8% | +23.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643889 | OSTEOTOMY FIXATION DEVICE AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19063798 | VARIABLE ANGLE LOCKING CONSTRUCT FOR ORTHOPEDIC APPLICATIONS | YANG, ANDREW | — |
| 17736256 | ANTIOXIDANT POLYMERIC BIOMATERIAL FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING AND METHODS OF USING SAME | WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19063798 | VARIABLE ANGLE LOCKING CONSTRUCT FOR ORTHOPEDIC APPLICATIONS | YANG, ANDREW | — |
| 18643889 | OSTEOTOMY FIXATION DEVICE AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 17736256 | ANTIOXIDANT POLYMERIC BIOMATERIAL FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING AND METHODS OF USING SAME | WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 2 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19063798 | VARIABLE ANGLE LOCKING CONSTRUCT FOR ORTHOPEDIC APPLICATIONS | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18643889 | OSTEOTOMY FIXATION DEVICE AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 17736256 | ANTIOXIDANT POLYMERIC BIOMATERIAL FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING AND METHODS OF USING SAME | WHEELER, THURMAN MICHAEL | 1619 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 04, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTrilliant Surgical LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Andrew Yang has the most, with 1 of Trilliant Surgical LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
