Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
16 pending office actions • 2 clients • 16 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 77 patents granted in the last 365 days
DUANE MORRIS LLP - WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY focuses on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and has 15 pending office actions. The related firm profile records 13370 career applications, providing portfolio scale for interpreting this client-specific workload.
The resolved allowance rate is 87.71%, with 3.37 office actions per allowance on average. The figures indicate that resolved matters frequently reach allowance, although successful prosecution generally involves multiple examination exchanges. This combination is relevant to practitioners managing medical-device portfolios that require continued response and amendment strategy.
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 | 5 (31%) |
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (44%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (6%) |
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% |
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.8% | +29.9% |
| STEWART, ALVIN J | 1 | 82.2% | +0.8% |
| CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 1 | 60.0% | +38.9% |
| FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | 1 | 80.0% | +22.1% |
| SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 1 | 73.8% | +18.9% |
| HU, ANN M | 1 | 67.8% | +21.5% |
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 7 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 | — |
| 18967760 | PATIENT SPECIFIC HUMERAL IMPLANT COMPONENTS | STEWART, ALVIN J | — |
| 18675322 | HUMERAL IMPLANT ANCHOR SYSTEM | HU, ANN M | — |
| 18703819 | CONVERTIBLE GLENOID IMPLANTS | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | — |
| 18331470 | MULTIAXIAL MODULAR STEMS | FLORES, ADRIAN | — |
| 18038663 | FIXATION MECHANISM FOR GLENOID IMPLANTS | WILLSE, DAVID H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18876884 | MONOLITHIC BASEPLATE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
| 18960387 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | — |
| 18945832 | TALAR BONE PLATE | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | — |
| 18926682 | HUMERAL FIXATION PLATES | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| 18675322 | HUMERAL IMPLANT ANCHOR SYSTEM | HU, ANN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 7 |
| 3775 | 3 |
| 3799 | 2 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19232020 | TARGETING GUIDE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | Wright Medical Technology, Inc. | WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E | 3775 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19214229 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE BUNION SURGERY | Wright Medical Technology, Inc. | BATES, DAVID W | 3799 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2025 |
| 19078866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PLATE TRIAL PACKAGING | Wright Medical Technology, Inc. | ACKUN, JACOB K | 3736 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 19063536 | ANTERIOR ANKLE APPROACH SYSTEM AND METHOD | Wright Medical Technology, Inc. | COLEY, ZADE JAMES | 3775 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18876884 | MONOLITHIC BASEPLATE | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18967760 | PATIENT SPECIFIC HUMERAL IMPLANT COMPONENTS | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | STEWART, ALVIN J | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18960387 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Wright Medical Technology, Inc. | CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL | 2877 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18945832 | TALAR BONE PLATE | Wright Medical Technology, Inc. | FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 | |
| 18926682 | HUMERAL FIXATION PLATES | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 3775 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18675322 | HUMERAL IMPLANT ANCHOR SYSTEM | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | HU, ANN M | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18703819 | CONVERTIBLE GLENOID IMPLANTS | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18393827 | PROSTHESIS FOR A FRACTURED LONG BONE | Tornier | NERENBERG, RENEE FLORENCIA | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18331470 | MULTIAXIAL MODULAR STEMS | Wright Medical Technology, Inc. | FLORES, ADRIAN | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18038663 | FIXATION MECHANISM FOR GLENOID IMPLANTS | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | WILLSE, DAVID H | 3774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 17654080 | SET OF GLENOID COMPONENTS FOR A SHOULDER PROSTHESIS | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2022 |
| 17149527 | FEMORAL AND HUMERAL STEM GEOMETRY AND IMPLANTATION METHOD FOR ORTHOPEDIC JOINT RECONSTRUCTION | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | HOBAN, MELISSA A | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial87.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Duane Morris LLP - Wright Medical Technology were allowed, across 13,370 applications in USPTO records.
3.37 office actions per allowed application on average.
16 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 16 examiners in 6 art units.
