Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 5 clients • 9 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sheridan Law LLC has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and 458 career applications. The record combines an active docket with a defined application history in this technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 88.16%, and allowed matters averaged 3.03 office actions per allowance. The rate describes resolved outcomes, while the action average reflects examination activity before allowance. Practitioners can use the current-action figure to consider present workload and the two historical measures to evaluate outcomes and prosecution interaction.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (11%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.6% |
| PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 64.9% | +19.1% |
| BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 1 | 80.8% | +11.8% |
| RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 1 | 15.4% | +0.0% |
| BUCK, MATTHEW R | 1 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
| ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | 1 | 57.3% | +24.6% |
| FRISBY, KESHA | 1 | 52.9% | +23.3% |
| DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 1 | 64.0% | +48.7% |
| STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 1 | 42.4% | +35.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18954937 | METHOD AND TOOL FOR DIRECTING AN ANNULAR FLOW ACROSS A WELL BORE INTERVAL | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16707681 | PRE-SHAPED ALLOGRAFT IMPLANT FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL USE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 22d |
| 19440083 | CRYOPRESERVED OSTEOCHONDRAL ALLOGRAFT (COCA) TRANSPLANTATION DEFECT SIZERS AND INSTRUMENT KITS | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| 19075320 | TRANSMISSION ASSEMBLY FOR TRANSMITTING TORQUE ACROSS AN ANGULAR CONNECTION BETWEEN A TORSIONAL DRIVE COMPONENT AND A TORSIONALLY DRIVEN COMPONENT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
| 18877293 | ACELLULAR DERMAL MATRIX SHEET ALLOGRAFTS HAVING SPECIALIZED MESH PATTERNS | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | — |
| 18279572 | TACTILE TISSUE SIMULATING STRUCTURES | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | — |
| 17899270 | PRE-SHAPED ALLOGRAFT IMPLANT FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL USE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE, AND TOOLS FOR FORMING A PRE-SHAPED ALLOGRAFT IMPLANT FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL USE | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18221059 | SYSTEM FOR ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY TRAINING | FRISBY, KESHA | 3d overdue |
| 16707681 | PRE-SHAPED ALLOGRAFT IMPLANT FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL USE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 22d |
| 19450974 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING RECONFIGURABLE WALLS OF WATER | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | — |
| 19440083 | CRYOPRESERVED OSTEOCHONDRAL ALLOGRAFT (COCA) TRANSPLANTATION DEFECT SIZERS AND INSTRUMENT KITS | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| 19075320 | TRANSMISSION ASSEMBLY FOR TRANSMITTING TORQUE ACROSS AN ANGULAR CONNECTION BETWEEN A TORSIONAL DRIVE COMPONENT AND A TORSIONALLY DRIVEN COMPONENT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
| 18954937 | METHOD AND TOOL FOR DIRECTING AN ANNULAR FLOW ACROSS A WELL BORE INTERVAL | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18279572 | TACTILE TISSUE SIMULATING STRUCTURES | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | — |
| 17899270 | PRE-SHAPED ALLOGRAFT IMPLANT FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL USE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE, AND TOOLS FOR FORMING A PRE-SHAPED ALLOGRAFT IMPLANT FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL USE | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Allosource | 4 |
| TACTILE ORTHOPAEDICS INC. | 2 |
| Technifex Products, LLC | 1 |
| New Ventures Marketing, LLC | 1 |
| Basin Energy Solutions Ip Holdings Corporation | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 1632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19450974 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING RECONFIGURABLE WALLS OF WATER | Technifex Products, LLC | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2026 |
| 19440083 | CRYOPRESERVED OSTEOCHONDRAL ALLOGRAFT (COCA) TRANSPLANTATION DEFECT SIZERS AND INSTRUMENT KITS | AlloSource | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2026 |
| 19075320 | TRANSMISSION ASSEMBLY FOR TRANSMITTING TORQUE ACROSS AN ANGULAR CONNECTION BETWEEN A TORSIONAL DRIVE COMPONENT AND A TORSIONALLY DRIVEN COMPONENT | New Ventures Marketing, LLC | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| 18877293 | ACELLULAR DERMAL MATRIX SHEET ALLOGRAFTS HAVING SPECIALIZED MESH PATTERNS | AlloSource | RIOS, GABRIELLA GISELLE BONO | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18954937 | METHOD AND TOOL FOR DIRECTING AN ANNULAR FLOW ACROSS A WELL BORE INTERVAL | Basin Energy Solutions Ip Holdings Corporation | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3672 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18279572 | TACTILE TISSUE SIMULATING STRUCTURES | Tactile Orthopaedics Inc. | ALVESTEFFER, STEPHEN D | 3715 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18221059 | SYSTEM FOR ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY TRAINING | Tactile Orthopaedics Inc. | FRISBY, KESHA | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 17899270 | PRE-SHAPED ALLOGRAFT IMPLANT FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL USE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE, AND TOOLS FOR FORMING A PRE-SHAPED ALLOGRAFT IMPLANT FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL USE | AlloSource | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
| 16707681 | PRE-SHAPED ALLOGRAFT IMPLANT FOR RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL USE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE | AlloSource | STAVROU, CONSTANTINA E | 1632 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Dec 09, 2019 |
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Start Free Trial88.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Sheridan Law LLC were allowed, across 458 applications in USPTO records.
3.03 office actions per allowed application on average.
9 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 9 examiners in 6 art units.
