Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Unik Orthopedics, Inc. maintains a patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action currently active for the company. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This structure indicates a highly localized prosecution effort, with all current activity occurring within a single administrative segment of the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES, who is handling the 1 pending office action. Since the portfolio only contains 1 distinct examiner, LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES manages the entirety of the pending workload. The active office action serves as the primary focal point for the company's current legal strategy in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Practitioners can conclude that the resolution of the matter under LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES is the current priority for Unik Orthopedics, Inc.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.7% | +29.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18789010 | LOAD AND GAP BALANCE SYSTEM IN KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 10d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18789010 | LOAD AND GAP BALANCE SYSTEM IN KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 10d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18789010 | LOAD AND GAP BALANCE SYSTEM IN KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
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