Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
18 pending office actions • 7 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mirus LLC has 20 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 16 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units, showing meaningful examiner dispersion across a smaller set of technical assignments.
HILL, STEPHANI A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. The workload is therefore distributed across many examiner contacts rather than concentrated with the busiest examiner. Counsel can use art-unit grouping to identify recurring technical issues, while maintaining examiner-specific preparation for the individual response records.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (22%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 2 | 29.2% | +44.0% |
| WHITE, KIA XIONG | 2 | 67.3% | +42.8% |
| SMITH, CATHERINE P | 2 | 16.1% | +16.8% |
| ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 1 | 62.2% | +23.6% |
| SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 1 | 73.8% | +18.9% |
| YANG, ANDREW | 1 | 84.3% | +10.4% |
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +26.0% |
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.8% | +29.9% |
| GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 1 | 85.5% | +17.2% |
| KU, SI MING | 1 | 72.8% | +32.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19278100 | SPINAL CAGE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLY AND USE | YANG, ANDREW | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204180 | COATING FOR METAL ALLOY | HILL, STEPHANI A | 28d overdue |
| 18222237 | HEAT TREATMENT OF A METAL ALLOY | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 8d |
| 18967034 | METAL ALLOW HAVING RHENIUM EFFECT | HILL, STEPHANI A | 9d |
| 18435262 | REFLECTIVE ROOF COATING HAVING REDUCED TITANIUM DIOXIDE | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 26d |
| 19574544 | GUIDE FLEX SYSTEM FOR DELIVERY HANDLE FOR PROSTHETIC VALVE DELIVERY SYSTEMS | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | — |
| 19200178 | ORTHOPEDIC SCREW FORMED OF IMPROVED METAL ALLOY | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
| 19197799 | EXPANDABLE PROSTHETIC DEVICE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
| 19084400 | ANTERIOR LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION DEVICE WITH BIDIRECTIONAL SCREWS | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204180 | COATING FOR METAL ALLOY | HILL, STEPHANI A | 28d overdue |
| 18222237 | HEAT TREATMENT OF A METAL ALLOY | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 8d |
| 18967034 | METAL ALLOW HAVING RHENIUM EFFECT | HILL, STEPHANI A | 9d |
| 19574544 | GUIDE FLEX SYSTEM FOR DELIVERY HANDLE FOR PROSTHETIC VALVE DELIVERY SYSTEMS | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | — |
| 19284760 | BONE SCREW LOCKING RECEIVER AND BONE SCREW SYSTEM | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | — |
| 19278100 | SPINAL CAGE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLY AND USE | YANG, ANDREW | — |
| 19200178 | ORTHOPEDIC SCREW FORMED OF IMPROVED METAL ALLOY | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
| 19197799 | EXPANDABLE PROSTHETIC DEVICE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 5 |
| 3775 | 5 |
| 1735 | 4 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19574544 | GUIDE FLEX SYSTEM FOR DELIVERY HANDLE FOR PROSTHETIC VALVE DELIVERY SYSTEMS | ALEMAN, SARAH WEBB | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2026 |
| 19284760 | BONE SCREW LOCKING RECEIVER AND BONE SCREW SYSTEM | SHIRSAT, MARCELA | 3775 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19278100 | SPINAL CAGE DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLY AND USE | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 19200178 | ORTHOPEDIC SCREW FORMED OF IMPROVED METAL ALLOY | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 19197799 | EXPANDABLE PROSTHETIC DEVICE | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19084400 | ANTERIOR LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION DEVICE WITH BIDIRECTIONAL SCREWS | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 3775 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19005364 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF BONE PLATING | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18967034 | METAL ALLOW HAVING RHENIUM EFFECT | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18620112 | CRIMPER SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | COOK, KYLE A | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18438641 | MEDICAL DEVICE THAT INCLUDES COATING MATERIAL | WHITE, KIA XIONG | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18435262 | REFLECTIVE ROOF COATING HAVING REDUCED TITANIUM DIOXIDE | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18429919 | EXPANDABLE FRAME FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | SHARMA, YASHITA | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18400338 | ORTHOPEDIC MEDICAL DEVICES THAT INCLUDE COATING MATERIAL | WHITE, KIA XIONG | 3774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18237300 | METAL ALLOYS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES | DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1784 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18233067 | STENT DEVICE FOR SPINAL FUSION | BLASS, PARIS MARIE | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18222237 | HEAT TREATMENT OF A METAL ALLOY | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1735 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18204180 | COATING FOR METAL ALLOY | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 17586270 | Medical Device That Includes a Rhenium Metal Alloy | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMirus LLC has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 15 examiners.
Stephani A Hill has the most, with 2 of Mirus LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
