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| Art Unit: | 3774 — Prosthesis (i.e., artificial body members), parts thereof, or aids and accessories therefor |
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| Group: | 3770 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| Classes: |
623 — Prosthesis (i.e., artificial body members), parts thereof, or aids and accessories therefor 601 — Surgery: kinesitherapy 606 — Surgery 424 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 524 — Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series |
| Phone: | (313) 446-4864 |
| Email: | rebecca.zimmerman@uspto.gov |
| Location: | MI 48207 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg |
| Service: | 8 years |
| Grade: | GS-13 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 76% over 235 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 51st
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With Examiner Zimmerman, you have a 76% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Zimmerman is a medium examiner and in the 51st percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Zimmerman, where the timeline is relative to the date of the first office action. The three-year grant rate is the percentage of applications granted at three years after the first office action.
Examiner Zimmerman's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3774 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Zimmerman | 1.8 |
| Art Unit 3774 | 1.7 |
Examiner Zimmerman has granted 141 of 192 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 73%.
Examiner Zimmerman has granted 37 of 43 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 86%.
With Examiner Zimmerman, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 18%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17841965 | Transcatheter Valve Prosthesis And A Concurrently Delivered Sealing Component | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 17004328 | Vascular Prosthesis | Patented | View | |
| 17242517 | Prosthetic Valve Delivery Assembly | Patented | View | |
| 17716995 | Silicone Prosthesis Delivery Apparatus And Methods Of Use | Abandoned | View | |
| 18729799 | Inductive Matrix For Functional Ocular Surface Reconstruction | Patented | View | |
| 19184064 | Bioactive Implant | Patented | View | |
| 16621336 | Hierarchical Multiscale Electrospun Scaffold For The Regeneration And/or Replacement Of The Tendinous/ligamentous Tissue And A Method For Its Production | Abandoned | View | |
| 17426046 | Apparatus For Use In Repairing Mitral Valves And Method Of Use Thereof | Abandoned | View | |
| 18375298 | Intravascular Stent Having High Fatigue Performance | Patented | View | |
| 17466868 | Tympanic Membrane Patch And Loading Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 17959599 | Methods Of Making Reinforced Soft Tissue Grafts With Suture Loop/needle Constructs | Patented | View | |
| 16950335 | Tissue Engineered Vertebral Discs | Abandoned | View | |
| 17188693 | Method And Apparatus For Orthopedic Implant | Patented | View | |
| 17526440 | Segmented Annular Reduction Systems And Methods | Abandoned | View | |
| 16754968 | Matched Stent Cover | Patented | View | |
| 17189569 | Sutureless Repair Of Soft Tissue | Abandoned | View | |
| 17962491 | Medical Implants Having Managed Biodegradation | Patented | View | |
| 16977039 | Ear Implant | Abandoned | View | |
| 16820274 | Systems, Devices, And Methods Relating To The Manufacture Of Implantable Prosthetic Valves | Patented | View | |
| 18653022 | Heart Valve Sealing Devices And Delivery Devices Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 17094205 | Composite Web-Polymer Heart Valve | Patented | View | |
| 17243179 | Systems And Methods For Using Structured Tissue Augmentation Constructs In Soft Tissue Fixation Repair | Patented | View | |
| 17589527 | Heart Valve Sealing Devices And Delivery Devices Therefor | Patented | View | |
| 17074598 | Breast Prothesis | Patented | View | |
| 17877136 | Combined Macro And Micro-Porous Hybrid-Scale Fiber Matrix | Patented | View | |
| 18129950 | Size Adjustable Device To Cover And Secure Implantable Devices In Surgical Applications | Patented | View | |
| 18077333 | Device For Use With Body Tissue Sphincters | Patented | View | |
| 17535381 | Transcatheter Device For Treating Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation | Patented | View | |
| 17514478 | Integrated Radial Silicone-Filled Cell-Structured Human Body Implant And Manufacturing Method Thereof | Abandoned | View | |
| 18211990 | Advanced Actuating Mechanism And Method Of Operation For Fluid Displacement And Pressurizing Device | Patented | View | |
| 17318142 | Ligating Devices And Methods For Heart Valve Repair | Patented | View | |
| 17477212 | Biliary Stent Unit | Patented | View | |
| 16855277 | Methods, Systems And Devices For Pre-Operatively Planned Adaptive Glenoid Implants | Patented | View | |
| 18189119 | Gastroesophageal Reflux Treatment System, Method, And Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 17965476 | Advanced Actuating Mechanism And Method Of Operaton For Fluid Displacement And Pressurizing Device | Patented | View | |
| 17475089 | Anchor Delivery System And Associated Methods | Abandoned | View | |
| 18367159 | Crimped Textile Graft With Polymer Liner | Patented | View | |
| 18431989 | Anchor Delivery Device For Repairing Heart Valve | Patented | View | |
| 18573429 | Clamping Instrument | Patented | View | |
| 17383221 | Esophageal Stents And Related Methods | Patented | View | |
| 18591034 | Fixing Device For Clamping Tissue | Patented | View | |
| 18089627 | Urological Implant Having Extraction Handle And/or Arched Members | Patented | View | |
| 17657895 | Ureteral Stent | Patented | View | |
| 17817067 | Implant With Fiducial Markers | Patented | View | |
| 17900168 | Scaffold For Nasal Tissue Engineering | Patented | View | |
| 17153925 | Composite Implant Material | Abandoned | View | |
| 17467306 | Devices Including Muscle Matrix And Methods Of Production And Use | Abandoned | View | |
| 17365454 | Prosthetic Leaflet Device | Patented | View | |
| 18552423 | Novel Flexible Intestinal Anastomosis Stent | Patented | View | |
| 18089327 | Assembly-Type Device For Treatment Of Tricuspid Regurgitation | Patented | View |
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