Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
VGI Medical, LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, SIPP, AMY R., and is located within a distinct art unit. As the busiest examiner for the company, SIPP, AMY R. is responsible for the pending office action, which constitutes the whole of the company's active prosecution. The focus of the current portfolio is limited to this matter, requiring a targeted approach to the specific examiner and art unit involved.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit for the pending matter suggests a specialized technical focus for this application. Practitioners should analyze the specific examination history and preferences of SIPP, AMY R. to optimize the prosecution strategy. Because there is 1 pending office action, any developments in this case will have a significant impact on the company's overall patent position in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The coordination of efforts is simplified by the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +25.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19268578 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLANTING A FUSION DEVICE INTO A SACROILIAC JOINT | 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19268578 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLANTING A FUSION DEVICE INTO A SACROILIAC JOINT | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19268578 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLANTING A FUSION DEVICE INTO A SACROILIAC JOINT | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
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