Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 7 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 61 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (14%) |
| §102 only | 3 (21%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | 2 | 80.1% | +35.4% |
| COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 2 | 69.2% | +32.1% |
| WEISS, JESSICA | 1 | 81.3% | +32.8% |
| GEDEON, DEBORAH TALITHA | 1 | 54.4% | +61.8% |
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.2% | +48.5% |
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 83.3% | +24.4% |
| CHANG, OLIVIA C | 1 | 84.3% | +13.4% |
| WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1 | 48.9% | +39.4% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.5% | +17.0% |
| ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 1 | 72.7% | +17.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19199702 | DUAL EXPANDABLE INTER-BODY DEVICE | WEISS, JESSICA | — |
| 18931254 | SURGICAL IMPLANT BENDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | CHANG, OLIVIA C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17177916 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING COATED CERAMIC PARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEM | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 52d overdue |
| 17988191 | METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND APPARATUS FOR COATING BONE MATERIAL | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 21d |
| 17938792 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD HAVING AN OCCLUDING MEMBER | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 33d |
| 19031501 | SURGICAL PLATFORM SYSTEM | MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | — |
| 19011030 | SURGICAL FRAME HAVING TRANSLATING LOWER BEAM AND METHOD FOR USE THEREOF | MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | — |
| 18982510 | SURGICAL IMPLANT AND METHOD OF USE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| 18901081 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND METHOD | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | — |
| 17976540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ONE OR MORE SURGICAL TOOLS | BATES, DAVID W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19030479 | SPINAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 8d |
| 17988191 | METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND APPARATUS FOR COATING BONE MATERIAL | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 21d |
| 17938792 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD HAVING AN OCCLUDING MEMBER | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 33d |
| 19199702 | DUAL EXPANDABLE INTER-BODY DEVICE | WEISS, JESSICA | — |
| 19038928 | SURGICAL FRAME INCORPORATING ELECTRO-MAGNETIC IMAGING DEVICE | GEDEON, DEBORAH TALITHA | — |
| 19031501 | SURGICAL PLATFORM SYSTEM | MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | — |
| 19011030 | SURGICAL FRAME HAVING TRANSLATING LOWER BEAM AND METHOD FOR USE THEREOF | MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | — |
| 18982510 | SURGICAL IMPLANT AND METHOD OF USE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 4 |
| 3673 | 3 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19199702 | DUAL EXPANDABLE INTER-BODY DEVICE | WEISS, JESSICA | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19038928 | SURGICAL FRAME INCORPORATING ELECTRO-MAGNETIC IMAGING DEVICE | GEDEON, DEBORAH TALITHA | 3673 | DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19031501 | SURGICAL PLATFORM SYSTEM | MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | 3673 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19030479 | SPINAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19011030 | SURGICAL FRAME HAVING TRANSLATING LOWER BEAM AND METHOD FOR USE THEREOF | MATTHEWS, MADISON ROSE | 3673 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18982510 | SURGICAL IMPLANT AND METHOD OF USE | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18973347 | INTEGRAL GRAFT INTERBODY DEVICES | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18931254 | SURGICAL IMPLANT BENDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | CHANG, OLIVIA C | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18901081 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND METHOD | COTRONEO, STEVEN J | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 17988191 | METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND APPARATUS FOR COATING BONE MATERIAL | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17976540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ONE OR MORE SURGICAL TOOLS | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
| 17938792 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD HAVING AN OCCLUDING MEMBER | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 3783 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 17876635 | INTERBODY IMPLANT HAVING ENDPLATES CONNECTED BY STRUTS | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17177916 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING COATED CERAMIC PARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEM | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Feb 17, 2021 |
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