Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Aurora Medical Technologies Corp. is currently handling 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Despite having multiple actions, they are all concentrated in 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a high degree of technological consistency in the company's active filings. The 1 distinct art unit involved provides a singular administrative environment for both of the 2 pending office actions.
RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This single examiner manages the company's entire active workload. Because 1 distinct examiner is responsible for all active matters, the company faces a consolidated prosecution path where one individual's perspective governs the entire pending portfolio. RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE is the sole point of contact for the filings.
The concentration of the workload under 1 distinct examiner allows for a highly focused prosecution strategy. Practitioners can analyze the specific tendencies of the official to anticipate future office actions. This centralized structure within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area simplifies the management of the company's current intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 2 | 63.5% | +59.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643191 | SUTURING BREAKAWAY ANCHOR STRIP | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | — |
| 18121949 | SUTURING BREAKAWAY ANCHOR STRIP | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18643191 | SUTURING BREAKAWAY ANCHOR STRIP | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 3771 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18121949 | SUTURING BREAKAWAY ANCHOR STRIP | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 3771 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAurora Medical Technologies Corp. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lindsey Rae Rivers has the most, with 2 of Aurora Medical Technologies Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
