Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 1 of 6 (17%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spinal Elements Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 2 art units, showing that the portfolio spans multiple examination assignments within a compact technical grouping.
GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The repeated assignment may support coordinated claim development for those matters, while the remaining cases require examiner-specific prosecution planning.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 2 | 83.0% | +12.2% |
| CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 1 | 80.7% | +9.7% |
| GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 1 | 85.5% | +17.2% |
| PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 71.1% | +39.4% |
| BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 83.5% | +14.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18252682 | BONE TIE AND BONE TIE INSERTER | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 28d |
| 19202550 | LEVER REDUCER | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19013621 | SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 15d overdue |
| 19197335 | CERVICAL PLATE AND INSERTER | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 19193246 | SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | — |
| 18987551 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE INTERBODY FUSION | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19013621 | SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 15d overdue |
| 18252682 | BONE TIE AND BONE TIE INSERTER | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 28d |
| 19197335 | CERVICAL PLATE AND INSERTER | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | — |
| 19193246 | SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | — |
| 18987551 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE INTERBODY FUSION | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 4 |
| 3775 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202550 | LEVER REDUCER | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 3773 | §102§103DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19197335 | CERVICAL PLATE AND INSERTER | GIBSON, ERIC SHANE | 3775 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19193246 | SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19013621 | SPINAL IMPLANT DEVICE | PLIONIS, NICHOLAS J | 3773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18987551 | MINIMALLY INVASIVE INTERBODY FUSION | BECCIA, CHRISTOPHER J | 3775 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18252682 | BONE TIE AND BONE TIE INSERTER | GREEN, MICHELLE CHRISTINE | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | AI Ready | May 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSpinal Elements Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Michelle Christine Green has the most, with 2 of Spinal Elements Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
