Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Si-Bone Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. Examiner assignments are separate, while the art-unit distribution indicates that some matters share a technical examination setting.
CARTER, TARA ROSE E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Art-unit coordination may identify common issues, but each examiner will require an individual prosecution response.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 1 | 80.7% | +9.7% |
| PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 71.1% | +39.4% |
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 71.1% | +26.0% |
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 77.7% | +19.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050032 | IMPLANT PLACEMENT | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18951349 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PREPARING BONE TO RECEIVE AN IMPLANT | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024752 | SPINE STABILIZATION | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 42d overdue |
| 18951349 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PREPARING BONE TO RECEIVE AN IMPLANT | SIPP, AMY R. | — |
| 18632102 | IMPLANTS FOR SPINAL FIXATION OR FUSION | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 3 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050032 | IMPLANT PLACEMENT | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19024752 | SPINE STABILIZATION | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18951349 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PREPARING BONE TO RECEIVE AN IMPLANT | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18632102 | IMPLANTS FOR SPINAL FIXATION OR FUSION | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSi-Bone Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Tara Rose E Carter has the most, with 1 of Si-Bone Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
