Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 3 (43%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 2 | 56.3% | +53.8% |
| ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | 1 | 51.4% | +40.2% |
| KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 1 | 58.3% | +36.8% |
| BARIA, DINAH N | 1 | 73.0% | +28.9% |
| WHITE, KIA XIONG | 1 | 61.9% | +46.4% |
| STEWART, ALVIN J | 1 | 82.4% | +0.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17757147 | CEMENT RETAINING IMPLANT STEM FOR PERMANENT FIXATION | STEWART, ALVIN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18765571 | IMPLANTATION TOOL FOR AN INTERPHALANGEAL IMPLANT | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — |
| 18683258 | TIBIAL COMPONENT OF A KNEE JOINT ENDOPROSTHESIS WITH TIBIAL PLATE AND ANCHORING STEM | WHITE, KIA XIONG | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18883199 | ANTI-MICROBIAL IMPLANT COATING | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | — |
| 18765571 | IMPLANTATION TOOL FOR AN INTERPHALANGEAL IMPLANT | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | — |
| 18683271 | DISK-SHAPED AUGMENTATION FOR A BONE, PARTICULARLY A LONG BONE | BARIA, DINAH N | — |
| 18683258 | TIBIAL COMPONENT OF A KNEE JOINT ENDOPROSTHESIS WITH TIBIAL PLATE AND ANCHORING STEM | WHITE, KIA XIONG | — |
| 18006154 | COATING OF A STRUCTURED IMPLANT SURFACE | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | — |
| 17755719 | ZIRCONIUM-COATED IMPLANT COMPONENT AND USE OF SAME | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 4 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18883199 | ANTI-MICROBIAL IMPLANT COATING | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18765571 | IMPLANTATION TOOL FOR AN INTERPHALANGEAL IMPLANT | KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 3775 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18683271 | DISK-SHAPED AUGMENTATION FOR A BONE, PARTICULARLY A LONG BONE | BARIA, DINAH N | 3774 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18683258 | TIBIAL COMPONENT OF A KNEE JOINT ENDOPROSTHESIS WITH TIBIAL PLATE AND ANCHORING STEM | WHITE, KIA XIONG | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18006154 | COATING OF A STRUCTURED IMPLANT SURFACE | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 17757147 | CEMENT RETAINING IMPLANT STEM FOR PERMANENT FIXATION | STEWART, ALVIN J | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
| 17755719 | ZIRCONIUM-COATED IMPLANT COMPONENT AND USE OF SAME | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2022 |
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