Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 67 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 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. 14 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 | 10 (71%) |
| §102 only | 2 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANTOS, ROBERT G | 1 | 72.7% | +35.6% |
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.2% | +48.7% |
| WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 1 | 80.4% | +17.7% |
| THROOP, MYLES A | 1 | 58.0% | +41.4% |
| LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 1 | 80.6% | +15.5% |
| DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | 1 | 82.1% | +11.1% |
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.2% | +11.8% |
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 78.1% | +18.9% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 55.6% | +40.1% |
| WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1 | 45.7% | +33.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18854541 | SMART IMPLANT DESIGNS FOR HOUSING A POWER SOURCE, ANTENNA, GAUGES, AND MICROELECTRONICS | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 112d overdue |
| 19019331 | MULTIPLE SPINAL SURGICAL PATHWAYS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 3d overdue |
| 18322915 | BONE IMPLANT FOR ENCLOSING BONE MATERIAL | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | 3d overdue |
| 18124091 | SPINAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18183484 | SPINAL IMPLANTS WITH ELECTRONICS CARTRIDGE AND EXTERNALIZED ANTENNA | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 161d overdue |
| 18068140 | SPINAL IMPLANTS WITH ACTIVE SENSING CAPABILITIES | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 124d overdue |
| 18854541 | SMART IMPLANT DESIGNS FOR HOUSING A POWER SOURCE, ANTENNA, GAUGES, AND MICROELECTRONICS | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 112d overdue |
| 19019331 | MULTIPLE SPINAL SURGICAL PATHWAYS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 3d overdue |
| 18322915 | BONE IMPLANT FOR ENCLOSING BONE MATERIAL | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | 3d overdue |
| 19038369 | LIFT AND METHOD FOR USE OF A LIFT FOR POSITIONING A PATIENT RELATIVE TO A SURGICAL FRAME | SANTOS, ROBERT G | 7d |
| 19030479 | SPINAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 8d |
| 17988191 | METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND APPARATUS FOR COATING BONE MATERIAL | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 4 |
| 3774 | 3 |
| 3673 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19038369 | LIFT AND METHOD FOR USE OF A LIFT FOR POSITIONING A PATIENT RELATIVE TO A SURGICAL FRAME | SANTOS, ROBERT G | 3673 | Other | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19030479 | SPINAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19019331 | MULTIPLE SPINAL SURGICAL PATHWAYS SYSTEMS AND METHODS | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 3775 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18922710 | SURGICAL TABLE WITH MOVEMENT CAPABILITIES OF LOWER BODY SUPPORT STRUCTURES | THROOP, MYLES A | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18854541 | SMART IMPLANT DESIGNS FOR HOUSING A POWER SOURCE, ANTENNA, GAUGES, AND MICROELECTRONICS | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Oct 06, 2024 |
| 18322915 | BONE IMPLANT FOR ENCLOSING BONE MATERIAL | DUKERT, BRIAN AINSLEY | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18124091 | SPINAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18183484 | SPINAL IMPLANTS WITH ELECTRONICS CARTRIDGE AND EXTERNALIZED ANTENNA | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 161d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
| 18068140 | SPINAL IMPLANTS WITH ACTIVE SENSING CAPABILITIES | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102 | Final Rejection | 124d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2022 |
| 17988191 | METHODS, COMPOSITIONS AND APPARATUS FOR COATING BONE MATERIAL | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17938792 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE AND METHOD HAVING AN OCCLUDING MEMBER | ZAMORY, JUSTIN L | 3783 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 17233027 | WOVEN MESH FOR ENCLOSING BONE MATERIAL | SPENCER, MAXIMILIAN TOBIAS | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Apr 16, 2021 |
| 17193570 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIMITING DOSES OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC RADIATION DURING SURGERY | DEUTSCH, TAYLOR M | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Mar 05, 2021 |
| 17177916 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING COATED CERAMIC PARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING THEM | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Feb 17, 2021 |
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