Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wright Medical Technology Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 7 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing full examiner dispersion and some repetition across technical units.
WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The portfolio does not present a multi-matter examiner focus. Practitioners should tailor responses to each examination record while comparing recurring device-related issues within the repeated art-unit assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 1 | 80.6% | +17.2% |
| BATES, DAVID W | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| ACKUN, JACOB K | 1 | 57.1% | +3.3% |
| COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 1 | 72.3% | +26.0% |
| CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 1 | 60.0% | +38.9% |
| FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 1 | 80.0% | +22.1% |
| FLORES, ADRIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19232020 | TARGETING GUIDE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19214229 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE BUNION SURGERY | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 19078866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PLATE TRIAL PACKAGING | ACKUN, JACOB K | — |
| 18331470 | MULTIAXIAL MODULAR STEMS | FLORES, ADRIAN | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19232020 | TARGETING GUIDE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | — |
| 19214229 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE BUNION SURGERY | BATES, DAVID W | — |
| 19063536 | ANTERIOR ANKLE APPROACH SYSTEM AND METHOD | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | — |
| 18960387 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | — |
| 18945832 | TALAR BONE PLATE | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 2 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19232020 | TARGETING GUIDE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 3775 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19214229 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE BUNION SURGERY | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19078866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PLATE TRIAL PACKAGING | ACKUN, JACOB K | 3736 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19063536 | ANTERIOR ANKLE APPROACH SYSTEM AND METHOD | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18960387 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 2877 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18945832 | TALAR BONE PLATE | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18331470 | MULTIAXIAL MODULAR STEMS | FLORES, ADRIAN | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWright Medical Technology Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Jr, Larry E Waggle has the most, with 1 of Wright Medical Technology Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
