Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Össur Iceland Ehf manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio has 3 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners.
All 3 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE is the busiest examiner, with 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This means 2 of the 3 pending office actions total are assigned to a single examiner in that art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 2 | 49.8% | +26.2% |
| WILLSE, DAVID H | 1 | 67.3% | +14.0% |
| SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | 1 | 75.4% | +7.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18180757 | FOOT COVER FOR PROSTHETIC FOOT | SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18065817 | CURRENT CONTROLLER FOR A MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL ACTUATOR | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 62d |
| 18453620 | PROSTHETIC FEET HAVING HEEL HEIGHT ADJUSTABILITY | WILLSE, DAVID H | — |
| 17448770 | PROSTHETIC FEET AND FOOT COVERS | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18453620 | PROSTHETIC FEET HAVING HEEL HEIGHT ADJUSTABILITY | WILLSE, DAVID H | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18180757 | FOOT COVER FOR PROSTHETIC FOOT | SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18065817 | CURRENT CONTROLLER FOR A MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL ACTUATOR | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 17448770 | PROSTHETIC FEET AND FOOT COVERS | WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialÖssur Iceland Ehf has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Jacqueline Woznicki has the most, with 2 of Össur Iceland Ehf's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
