Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Aortic Solutions Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners, indicating a broad spread of technical review for the portfolio. The alignment of 1 examiner per pending action suggests that the company is navigating diverse patent paths simultaneously rather than facing a concentrated bottleneck with a single official.
Examiner JAFFRI, ZEHRA is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 3 and the busiest examiner only handles 1, the portfolio exhibits a decentralized prosecution structure. This lack of examiner concentration can be beneficial for risk management, as the outcome of an application is less likely to be influenced by the specific tendencies of a single examiner across the entire set.
The presence of 3 distinct art units further confirms that the pending office actions involve varied technological classifications. Practitioners should note that this distribution requires familiarity with the specific procedural nuances of different administrative sections within the patent office. Managing examiners across 3 art units for the current pending actions represents a high level of institutional variety relative to the total volume of active prosecution.
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.
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.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 1 | 58.0% | +49.1% |
| LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 1 | 53.3% | +21.5% |
| ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 1 | 62.2% | +23.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18379390 | SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 13d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17782238 | CATHETER ASSEMBLY AND RELATED METHODS | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 38d overdue |
| 18379390 | SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 13d |
| 18285764 | EXCISION CATHETER SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18379390 | SURGICAL SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 3771 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18285764 | EXCISION CATHETER SYSTEM FOR AN AORTIC VALVE | LANCASTER, LINDSAY REGAN | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 17782238 | CATHETER ASSEMBLY AND RELATED METHODS | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Jun 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAortic Solutions Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Zehra Jaffri has the most, with 1 of Aortic Solutions Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
