Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Zimmer, Inc.

8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (12%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
§102 only1 (12%)
§112 only1 (12%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
12% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
88% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 2 73.6% +29.9%
KAMIKAWA, TRACY L 1 58.7% +36.8%
WEISS, JESSICA 1 81.0% +33.4%
LHYMN, SARAH 1 65.5% +15.1%
LIU, CHU CHUAN 1 71.3% +13.5%
CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 1 64.8% +28.3%
WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL 1 61.0% +39.9%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18538990 FEMORAL TRIAL HEAD WEISS, JESSICA

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18084062 BONE FRACTURE RECOVERY MANAGEMENT SENSOR AND ANALYTICS CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 92d overdue
18405566 SNAP-ON REAMER CONNECTOR LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 80d overdue
17961993 TIBIAL PROSTHESIS FOR TIBIA WITH VARUS RESECTION WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL 36d overdue
18368980 SYSTEM OF MODULAR REAMERS AND BROACHES LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 10d overdue
18557249 AUGMENTED REALITY PATIENT ASSESSMENT MODULE LHYMN, SARAH 4d overdue
18869065 FEMORAL POSTERIOR REFERENCING SIZER KAMIKAWA, TRACY L 5d
18494526 IMPLANTABLE SENSING DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR MOUNTING ON OUTER SURFACE OF BONE LIU, CHU CHUAN 35d
18538990 FEMORAL TRIAL HEAD WEISS, JESSICA

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3775 2
3619 2
3791 2
2613 1
3774 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18869065 FEMORAL POSTERIOR REFERENCING SIZER KAMIKAWA, TRACY L 3775 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 25, 2024
18405566 SNAP-ON REAMER CONNECTOR LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 3619 §102 Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2024
18538990 FEMORAL TRIAL HEAD WEISS, JESSICA 3775 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2023
18557249 AUGMENTED REALITY PATIENT ASSESSMENT MODULE LHYMN, SARAH 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18494526 IMPLANTABLE SENSING DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR MOUNTING ON OUTER SURFACE OF BONE LIU, CHU CHUAN 3791 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending Oct 25, 2023
18368980 SYSTEM OF MODULAR REAMERS AND BROACHES LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 3619 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18084062 BONE FRACTURE RECOVERY MANAGEMENT SENSOR AND ANALYTICS CERIONI, DANIEL LEE 3791 §103 Final Rejection 92d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2022
17961993 TIBIAL PROSTHESIS FOR TIBIA WITH VARUS RESECTION WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL 3774 §112 Final Rejection 36d overdue Pending Oct 07, 2022

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