Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dura LLC has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter is concentrated in 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
DUBOSE, LAUREN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Practitioners can focus prosecution work on one examiner’s outstanding concerns.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUBOSE, LAUREN | 1 | 59.1% | +46.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17121615 | HEART VALVE LEAFLET REPLACEMENT DEVICES AND MULTI-STAGE, MULTI-LUMEN HEART VALVE DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR USE | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 35d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17121615 | HEART VALVE LEAFLET REPLACEMENT DEVICES AND MULTI-STAGE, MULTI-LUMEN HEART VALVE DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR USE | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17121615 | HEART VALVE LEAFLET REPLACEMENT DEVICES AND MULTI-STAGE, MULTI-LUMEN HEART VALVE DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR USE | DUBOSE, LAUREN | 3771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Dec 14, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialDura LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lauren Dubose has the most, with 1 of Dura LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
