Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZAVATION MEDICAL PRODUCTS, LLC has 3 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so each record has its own examination path.
GOTFREDSON, GAREN is the busiest examiner. Counsel should maintain consistent technical positions across the portfolio while tailoring claim amendments and supporting explanations to each art-unit assignment.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 1 | 39.9% | +28.1% |
| MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 1 | 68.5% | +48.1% |
| JOHNSON, ALLISON MARIE | 1 | 40.9% | +53.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481880 | TRANSVERSE CONNECTOR | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 2d overdue |
| 17825950 | STEM CELL IMPREGNATED CORTICAL FIBERS | JOHNSON, ALLISON MARIE | 33d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481880 | TRANSVERSE CONNECTOR | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 2d overdue |
| 17825950 | STEM CELL IMPREGNATED CORTICAL FIBERS | JOHNSON, ALLISON MARIE | 33d |
| 18917586 | BONE REPAIR COMPOSITION AND KIT | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1619 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 1638 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917586 | BONE REPAIR COMPOSITION AND KIT | GOTFREDSON, GAREN | 1619 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18481880 | TRANSVERSE CONNECTOR | MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L | 3773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 17825950 | STEM CELL IMPREGNATED CORTICAL FIBERS | JOHNSON, ALLISON MARIE | 1638 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialZAVATION MEDICAL PRODUCTS, LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Garen Gotfredson has the most, with 1 of ZAVATION MEDICAL PRODUCTS, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
