Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aurora Spine Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution activity is focused entirely on this single matter in the medical device sector.
CARTER, TARA ROSE E is the busiest examiner for the company, managing the 1 pending office action. This individual is the sole examiner currently reviewing pending applications for the portfolio. Because the company has only 1 action total, its immediate progress at the patent office is entirely dependent on the review and feedback of this specific official. Practitioners should tailor their strategy to the preferences of this examiner within the 1 art unit to ensure a favorable outcome for the application.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 1 | 85.5% | +17.2% |
| CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 1 | 80.7% | +9.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19266701 | DYNAMIC AND NON-DYNAMIC INTERSPINOUS FUSION IMPLANT AND BONE GROWTH STIMULATION SYSTEM | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19395031 | SPINAL IMPLANT FOR MOTION PRESERVATION OR FUSION | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19395031 | SPINAL IMPLANT FOR MOTION PRESERVATION OR FUSION | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19395031 | SPINAL IMPLANT FOR MOTION PRESERVATION OR FUSION | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 3775 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2025 |
| 19266701 | DYNAMIC AND NON-DYNAMIC INTERSPINOUS FUSION IMPLANT AND BONE GROWTH STIMULATION SYSTEM | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 3773 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAurora Spine Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Eric Shane Gibson has the most, with 1 of Aurora Spine Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
