Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 4 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. Kg currently has 11 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 11 actions are assigned to 11 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is reviewing exactly 1 application. The portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct art units, which suggests a variety of technical focuses within the company's medical device innovations.
The busiest examiner, BATES, DAVID W, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 11 pending office actions split among 11 distinct examiners, there is no concentration of work under any 1 individual. The use of 4 distinct art units indicates that the company's applications are being reviewed by several different technical groups. For practitioners, this high level of dispersion across 11 distinct examiners means that prosecution strategies must be highly individualized for each application. While the matters are spread across 4 distinct art units, the lack of examiner overlap means that no 1 person's history will dominate the portfolio's outcome. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of each art unit while addressing the unique feedback from the 11 different examiners involved in the current pending workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 2 | 48.1% | +45.2% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | 1 | 51.8% | +38.7% |
| KAMIKAWA, TRACY L | 1 | 58.4% | +37.3% |
| TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1 | 59.3% | +39.2% |
| BARIA, DINAH N | 1 | 72.9% | +28.5% |
| WHITE, KIA XIONG | 1 | 66.0% | +44.1% |
| HOBAN, MELISSA A | 1 | 62.8% | +13.7% |
| BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 1 | 54.5% | +39.6% |
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 1 | 16.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690286 | POROUS TITANIUM ALLOY STRUCTURE WITH A SILVER COATING HAVING OSTEOCOMPATIBILITY AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 26d |
| 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 | — |
| 18683258 | TIBIAL COMPONENT OF A KNEE JOINT ENDOPROSTHESIS WITH TIBIAL PLATE AND ANCHORING STEM | WHITE, KIA XIONG | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690286 | POROUS TITANIUM ALLOY STRUCTURE WITH A SILVER COATING HAVING OSTEOCOMPATIBILITY AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 26d |
| 18684187 | DISC-SHAPED AUGMENTATION FOR A LONG BONE | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 6 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 1612 | 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 | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18883199 | ANTI-MICROBIAL IMPLANT COATING | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | — | §103DP | 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 |
| 18690286 | POROUS TITANIUM ALLOY STRUCTURE WITH A SILVER COATING HAVING OSTEOCOMPATIBILITY AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES | TIEN, LUCY MINYU | 1612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18683271 | DISK-SHAPED AUGMENTATION FOR A BONE, PARTICULARLY A LONG BONE | BARIA, DINAH N | 3774 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | 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 |
| 18408750 | ACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLICATOR FOR A JOINT IMPLANT, AND JOINT IMPLANT HAVING AN ACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLICATOR | HOBAN, MELISSA A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18006154 | COATING OF A STRUCTURED IMPLANT SURFACE | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 17757301 | ANCHORING MEMBER FOR A JOINT REPLACEMENT | DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE | 3774 | §102§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 |
| 17757147 | CEMENT RETAINING IMPLANT STEM FOR PERMANENT FIXATION | STEWART, ALVIN J | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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