Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Inari Medical Inc.

7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (71%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (29%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
No statute on record2 (29%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GEIGER, RACHAEL L 1 85.7% +13.6%
NGUYEN, TUAN VAN 1 81.6% +19.4%
RASSAVONG, ERIC 1 71.0% +35.0%
VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 1 68.2% +27.9%
DANG, ANH TIEU 1 65.4% +35.2%
NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD 1 64.9% +53.8%
DAKKAK, JIHAD 1 49.3% +45.2%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18885201 MULTI-LUMEN ASPIRATION CATHETERS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS GEIGER, RACHAEL L 22d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18159507 ASPIRATION CATHETERS HAVING GROOVED INNER SURFACES, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS DAKKAK, JIHAD 85d overdue
18665301 METHOD FOR TREATING VASCULAR OCCLUSION NGUYEN, TUAN VAN 71d overdue
18311468 DILATOR FOR VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEMS, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES AND METHODS NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD 28d overdue
18515079 HEMOSTASIS VALVES AND METHODS OF USE VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 8d
18619012 SYSTEM FOR TREATING EMBOLISM AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES AND METHODS RASSAVONG, ERIC 21d
18885201 MULTI-LUMEN ASPIRATION CATHETERS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS GEIGER, RACHAEL L 22d
18467500 RECANALIZATION DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS DANG, ANH TIEU 39d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3771 4
3781 2
3783 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18885201 MULTI-LUMEN ASPIRATION CATHETERS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS GEIGER, RACHAEL L 3771 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Sep 13, 2024
18665301 METHOD FOR TREATING VASCULAR OCCLUSION NGUYEN, TUAN VAN 3771 Other Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending May 15, 2024
18619012 SYSTEM FOR TREATING EMBOLISM AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES AND METHODS RASSAVONG, ERIC 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Mar 27, 2024
18515079 HEMOSTASIS VALVES AND METHODS OF USE VU, QUYNH-NHU HOANG 3783 Other Non-Final OA 8d Pending Nov 20, 2023
18467500 RECANALIZATION DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS DANG, ANH TIEU 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Sep 14, 2023
18311468 DILATOR FOR VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEMS, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES AND METHODS NEMER, OSAMA MOHAMMAD 3771 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending May 03, 2023
18159507 ASPIRATION CATHETERS HAVING GROOVED INNER SURFACES, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS DAKKAK, JIHAD 3781 §103 Final Rejection 85d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2023

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