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
Centinel Spine LLC is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a high level of technical consistency in the pending portfolio. The prosecution involves a pair of distinct examiners, meaning each case is being reviewed by a different person despite the shared technical group.
GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and a pair of distinct examiners, the workload is split across the portfolio. The fact that both examiners are in a distinct art unit is significant for practitioners, as it implies that the same set of examination guidelines and prior art landscapes will likely apply to both matters. This concentration within a single art unit may allow for a more unified strategy across the 2 pending office actions. Each of the distinct examiners will bring an individual perspective to the shared technical standards of the art 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.0% | +12.2% |
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 77.7% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19410553 | INTERVERTEBRAL DISC IMPLANTS HAVING VARYING ENDPLATE GEOMETRIES | 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19410553 | INTERVERTEBRAL DISC IMPLANTS HAVING VARYING ENDPLATE GEOMETRIES | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | — |
| 18901592 | INTERVERTEBRAL IMPLANT WITH COMBINATION FIXATION ELEMENTS | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19410553 | INTERVERTEBRAL DISC IMPLANTS HAVING VARYING ENDPLATE GEOMETRIES | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2025 |
| 18901592 | INTERVERTEBRAL IMPLANT WITH COMBINATION FIXATION ELEMENTS | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCentinel Spine LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Michelle Christine Green has the most, with 1 of Centinel Spine LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
