Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Astura Medical Inc. has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 examiners but are contained within 1 art unit, suggesting examiner variation within a common technical examination setting.
HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can use the shared art-unit context to support consistent technical positioning while tailoring responses to each examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 2 | 77.7% | +19.1% |
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.0% | +12.2% |
| JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 1 | 63.9% | +29.9% |
| SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 1 | 68.4% | +43.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18378641 | MODULAR TULIP ASSEMBLY | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 264d overdue |
| 19218561 | EXPANDABLE LATERAL LUMBAR INTERBODY SPACER | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 89d overdue |
| 16581736 | ROD REDUCER | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 18d overdue |
| 19531332 | EXPANDABLE ARTICULATING TRANSFORAMINAL LUMBAR INTERBODY SPACER | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18378641 | MODULAR TULIP ASSEMBLY | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 264d overdue |
| 19218561 | EXPANDABLE LATERAL LUMBAR INTERBODY SPACER | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 89d overdue |
| 16581736 | ROD REDUCER | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 18d overdue |
| 19531332 | EXPANDABLE ARTICULATING TRANSFORAMINAL LUMBAR INTERBODY SPACER | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | — |
| 18637400 | TISSUE RETRACTOR HAVING A BEVEL GEAR DRIVEN RETRACTOR BLADE | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19531332 | EXPANDABLE ARTICULATING TRANSFORAMINAL LUMBAR INTERBODY SPACER | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2026 |
| 19218561 | EXPANDABLE LATERAL LUMBAR INTERBODY SPACER | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2025 |
| 18637400 | TISSUE RETRACTOR HAVING A BEVEL GEAR DRIVEN RETRACTOR BLADE | JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T | 3773 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18378641 | MODULAR TULIP ASSEMBLY | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 264d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 16581736 | ROD REDUCER | SUMMITT, LYNNSY M | 3773 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Sep 24, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialAstura Medical Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
Julianna Nancy Harvey has the most, with 2 of Astura Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
