Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Highridge Medical, LLC has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket involves 5 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit, showing examiner diversity concentrated in a single technical examination area.
MATTHEWS, TESSA M is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Art-unit continuity may support shared technical analysis, while examiner-specific prosecution planning remains necessary for the separate matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | 1 | 89.0% | +10.5% |
| HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 1 | 78.3% | +11.4% |
| MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 1 | 82.9% | +24.0% |
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 1 | 83.0% | +12.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18158317 | BONE ANCHOR | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 15d overdue |
| 19293875 | METHODS OF STABILIZING AN INTERVERTEBRAL SCAFFOLDING SYSTEM | NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | — |
| 19059813 | SPINAL TENSIONING SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18158317 | BONE ANCHOR | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 15d overdue |
| 19293875 | METHODS OF STABILIZING AN INTERVERTEBRAL SCAFFOLDING SYSTEM | NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | — |
| 19213607 | EXPANDABLE FUSION DEVICE WITH INDEPENDENT EXPANION SYSTEMS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | — |
| 19059813 | SPINAL TENSIONING SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19293875 | METHODS OF STABILIZING AN INTERVERTEBRAL SCAFFOLDING SYSTEM | NEGRELLIRODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19213607 | EXPANDABLE FUSION DEVICE WITH INDEPENDENT EXPANION SYSTEMS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19059813 | SPINAL TENSIONING SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD | MATTHEWS, TESSA M | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18158317 | BONE ANCHOR | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHighridge Medical, LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
Christina Negrellirodriguez has the most, with 1 of Highridge Medical, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
