Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aerin Medical Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This volume of 2 pending office actions suggests a small and focused patent portfolio. For a practitioner, managing 2 pending office actions requires a strategy that addresses the specific technical requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector while ensuring that both applications are handled with precision. The concentration in this area defines the technical scope of the current filings.
The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct examiners but is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the company's success is determined by the individual interpretations of two different officials working within the same group. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technical subject matter is highly specialized and confined to a single department at the patent office.
Practitioners should focus on the trends within the 1 distinct art unit to identify common examination practices. With 2 distinct examiners, there is a need for consistency to ensure that arguments made in one application do not conflict with the other of the 2 pending office actions. The individual workload of 1 pending office action for BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE is a key component of this prosecution effort. Navigating the 1 distinct art unit requires a deep understanding of its specific legal interpretations.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 1 | 91.0% | +7.3% |
| FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 1 | 72.6% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740252 | NASAL AIRWAY TISSUE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 56d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17662113 | METHODS AND DEVICES TO TREAT NASAL AIRWAYS | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740252 | NASAL AIRWAY TISSUE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 17662113 | METHODS AND DEVICES TO TREAT NASAL AIRWAYS | FOWLER, DANIEL WAYNE | 3794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAerin Medical Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Abigail Marie Bock has the most, with 1 of Aerin Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
