Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 3 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg has 9 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, showing examiner concentration and repeated art-unit assignments.
RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those matters warrant coordinated review, while the other actions should be assessed according to their respective examiner records.
The three-art-unit structure gives counsel a useful framework for identifying recurring treatment of medical-device claims. A combined examiner and art-unit review can support consistent portfolio positions without assuming that one response will address every open action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 2 | 15.4% | +0.0% |
| DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 2 | 48.1% | +45.2% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 1 | 58.2% | +37.1% |
| GANESAN, SUBA | 1 | 73.8% | +13.4% |
| HOBAN, MELISSA A | 1 | 62.6% | +13.6% |
| PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 1 | 55.4% | +35.9% |
| BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 1 | 57.1% | +42.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17757281 | REPLACEMENT MEMBER FOR A JOINT REPLACEMENT | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 34d |
| 18684187 | DISC-SHAPED AUGMENTATION FOR A LONG BONE | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 18765571 | IMPLANTATION TOOL FOR AN INTERPHALANGEAL IMPLANT | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — |
| 18426649 | JOINT IMPLANT WITH A POROUS STRUCTURE | GANESAN, SUBA | — |
| 18408750 | ACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLICATOR FOR A JOINT IMPLANT, AND JOINT IMPLANT HAVING AN ACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLICATOR | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
| 18006154 | COATING OF A STRUCTURED IMPLANT SURFACE | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | — |
| 17753437 | BONE IMPLANT HAVING COATED POROUS STRUCTURE | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | — |
| 17757301 | ANCHORING MEMBER FOR A JOINT REPLACEMENT | DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684187 | DISC-SHAPED AUGMENTATION FOR A LONG BONE | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 18765571 | IMPLANTATION TOOL FOR AN INTERPHALANGEAL IMPLANT | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — |
| 18426649 | JOINT IMPLANT WITH A POROUS STRUCTURE | GANESAN, SUBA | — |
| 18408750 | ACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLICATOR FOR A JOINT IMPLANT, AND JOINT IMPLANT HAVING AN ACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLICATOR | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — |
| 18497229 | IMPLANT DEVICE | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | — |
| 18006154 | COATING OF A STRUCTURED IMPLANT SURFACE | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | — |
| 17757301 | ANCHORING MEMBER FOR A JOINT REPLACEMENT | DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | — |
| 17757241 | JOINT PROSTHESIS | DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 8 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18684187 | DISC-SHAPED AUGMENTATION FOR A LONG BONE | BATES, DAVID W | 3774 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18765571 | IMPLANTATION TOOL FOR AN INTERPHALANGEAL IMPLANT | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 3775 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18426649 | JOINT IMPLANT WITH A POROUS STRUCTURE | GANESAN, SUBA | 3774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18408750 | ACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLICATOR FOR A JOINT IMPLANT, AND JOINT IMPLANT HAVING AN ACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLICATOR | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18497229 | IMPLANT DEVICE | PELLEGRINO, BRIAN E | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18006154 | COATING OF A STRUCTURED IMPLANT SURFACE | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 17753437 | BONE IMPLANT HAVING COATED POROUS STRUCTURE | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
| 17757301 | ANCHORING MEMBER FOR A JOINT REPLACEMENT | DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2022 |
| 17757281 | REPLACEMENT MEMBER FOR A JOINT REPLACEMENT | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 13, 2022 |
| 17757241 | JOINT PROSTHESIS | DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialWaldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 8 examiners.
Gabriella Giselle Bono Rios has the most, with 2 of Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
