Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC. - Hoffman Warnick has 10637 career applications in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The firm's resolved allowance rate is 87.16 percent. This percentage is based on the firm's total resolved cases in these technology areas.
The firm averages 2.94 office actions per allowance. There are 3 pending office actions currently active. These data points provide a record of the firm's prosecution outcomes and its current engagement with the patent office. Practitioners can use these numbers to understand the firm's history in these diverse systems.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 77.7% | +19.1% |
| KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 1 | 37.5% | +92.3% |
| EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | 1 | 16.4% | +36.5% |
| BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
| ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 1 | 71.3% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140168 | ADJUSTABLE IMPLANT AND METHOD OF USE | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 12d |
| 18000751 | INTELLIGENT ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL PATIENTS | EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | 62d |
| 18233099 | IMPLANTABLE DISTRACTION DEVICE | ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140168 | ADJUSTABLE IMPLANT AND METHOD OF USE | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 12d |
| 18000751 | INTELLIGENT ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL PATIENTS | EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | 62d |
| 17544043 | EXPANDABLE IMPLANT DEVICE | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 79d |
| 18140915 | IMPLANT WITH MULTI-MODAL ADJUSTMENT | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 83d |
| 17358755 | Ultrasonic Communication Phased Array | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1687 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18233099 | IMPLANTABLE DISTRACTION DEVICE | NuVasive, Inc. | ELKINS, BLAKE HARRISON | 1687 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18140915 | IMPLANT WITH MULTI-MODAL ADJUSTMENT | NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §112 | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18140168 | ADJUSTABLE IMPLANT AND METHOD OF USE | NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | KOHUTKA, BROOKE NICOLE | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18000751 | INTELLIGENT ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL PATIENTS | NuVasive, Inc. | EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | 3687 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
| 17544043 | EXPANDABLE IMPLANT DEVICE | NuVasive, Inc. | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 3775 | Other | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Dec 07, 2021 |
| 17358755 | Ultrasonic Communication Phased Array | NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | ABULABAN, ABDALLAH | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial87.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Globus Medical, Inc. - Hoffman Warnick were allowed, across 10,662 applications in USPTO records.
2.94 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.