Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Theraheart Inc. has 3 pending office actions, involving 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Each action has a distinct examiner, while the art-unit total indicates that one unit handles multiple matters.
ROANE, AARON F is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Response planning should account for separate examiner relationships within 2 examination units.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROANE, AARON F | 1 | 73.4% | +9.8% |
| TRAN, THIEN JASON | 1 | 74.7% | +18.2% |
| BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | 1 | 48.5% | +41.9% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19059609 | EXPANDABLE ABLATION MECHANISMS FOR SHUNTING CATHETERS | TRAN, THIEN JASON | — |
| 18593832 | SHUNTING CATHETERS | BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 2 |
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19095399 | SLICING ELEMENTS FOR SHUNTING CATHETERS | ROANE, AARON F | 3792 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 19059609 | EXPANDABLE ABLATION MECHANISMS FOR SHUNTING CATHETERS | TRAN, THIEN JASON | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18593832 | SHUNTING CATHETERS | BACHMAN, LINDSEY MICHELE | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTheraheart Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Aaron F Roane has the most, with 1 of Theraheart Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
