Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Affera, Inc.

3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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%)
3
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (100%)

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
3
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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M 1 43.6% +49.7%
LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN 1 35.6% -3.3%
FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 1 62.7% +41.1%

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
16633138 CATHETER-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF CARDIAC REGIONS FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 100d overdue
18462098 ABLATION CATHETERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M 20d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3794 2
3798 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18462098 ABLATION CATHETERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS ZIEGLER, ABIGAIL M 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Sep 06, 2023
17757359 PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION CATHETERS AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS LEE, DAVINA EN-YIN 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2022
16633138 CATHETER-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF CARDIAC REGIONS FANG, MICHAEL YIMING 3798 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2020

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