Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

3Spine, Inc.

5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (40%)
§102 only2 (40%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 4 78.0% +11.8%
HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY 1 78.1% +18.9%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18373185 SPINAL MOTION RESTORATION HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 42d overdue
18594385 POSTERIOR TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENT HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 30d overdue
18226197 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ALTERING SPINAL LORDOSIS AND/OR KYPHOSIS HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 10d overdue
19031595 SPINAL ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 15d
18236368 RESTORING SPINAL ALIGNMENT AND/OR RANGE OF MOTION USING BILATERAL IMPLANTS HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY 16d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3773 5

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19031595 SPINAL ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 3773 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 18, 2025
18594385 POSTERIOR TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENT HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 3773 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Mar 04, 2024
18373185 SPINAL MOTION RESTORATION HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 3773 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18236368 RESTORING SPINAL ALIGNMENT AND/OR RANGE OF MOTION USING BILATERAL IMPLANTS HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY 3773 Other Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 21, 2023
18226197 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ALTERING SPINAL LORDOSIS AND/OR KYPHOSIS HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA 3773 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2023

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