Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Avinger Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners but are both located within 1 distinct art unit. SERENITY A MILLER is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending action. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's active matters are technically related and are being reviewed within the same specialized division of the patent office.
The involvement of 2 distinct examiners within the art unit allows the company to receive independent evaluations of its technology from the same technical group. This can be beneficial for a practitioner, as it provides multiple perspectives on how the unit's standards are applied. With SERENITY A MILLER and another examiner each responsible for 1 pending action, the company must manage separate prosecution timelines while navigating the requirements of a single technical unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, SERENITY A | 1 | 68.0% | +36.9% |
| RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 1 | 64.1% | +56.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716831 | ATHERECTOMY CATHETER WITH SHAPEABLE DISTAL TIP | MILLER, SERENITY A | — |
| 18582526 | IDENTIFICATION OF ELASTIC LAMINA TO GUIDE INTERVENTIONAL THERAPY | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18716831 | ATHERECTOMY CATHETER WITH SHAPEABLE DISTAL TIP | MILLER, SERENITY A | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18582526 | IDENTIFICATION OF ELASTIC LAMINA TO GUIDE INTERVENTIONAL THERAPY | RIVERS, LINDSEY RAE | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
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