Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Aurora Consulting LLC

9 pending office actions • 9 clients • 9 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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.

1
Hard (11%)
7
Medium (78%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§103 only7 (78%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
11% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
67% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YANG, ANDREW 1 84.1% +10.5%
TOWA, RENE T 1 48.8% +17.1%
SIMPSON, DIONE N 1 33.1% +34.4%
ZHU, JIANJIAN 1 59.7% +82.5%
LETTERMAN, CATRINA A 1 67.5% +29.3%
HENDIJA, MAYA 1 0.0% +0.0%
HUYNH, VAN D 1 87.0% +13.9%
RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN 1 20.0% +9.8%
TRINH, HONG-VAN N 1 61.7% +59.4%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19249057 FORCE SENSING DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY YANG, ANDREW 8d
18344006 DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES HUYNH, VAN D 28d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18546508 CONTINUOUS FLOWCELL MONITORING APPARATUSES AND METHODS HENDIJA, MAYA 99d overdue
18753850 MACHINE LEARNING BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUDGET MANAGEMENT SIMPSON, DIONE N 10d overdue
17934438 IRRIGATION CATHETER WITH OPTIONAL ENTERAL FEEDING FUNCTIONALITY OR STOMACH-IN FLUID ASPIRATION FUNCTIONALITY RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN 8d

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
19231148 METHOD FOR NAVIGATING FLEXIBLE URINARY CATHETERS TOWA, RENE T 81d overdue
18707061 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR USING INDIVIDUALIZED GENOME ASSEMBLIES AND INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL LINES OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES FOR PRE-CLINICAL EVALUATION ZHU, JIANJIAN 29d overdue
18753850 MACHINE LEARNING BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUDGET MANAGEMENT SIMPSON, DIONE N 10d overdue
19249057 FORCE SENSING DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY YANG, ANDREW 8d
18344006 DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES HUYNH, VAN D 28d
18693918 PORTABLE PHYSICAL PARALLEL BAR SYSTEM LETTERMAN, CATRINA A 39d
17905865 SYRINGE APPARATUS AND SYRINGE ADAPTER DEVICE TRINH, HONG-VAN N 68d

Client Portfolio (9 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37832
37751
37911
36281
16311
37841
28771
26651

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19249057 FORCE SENSING DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Orthoiq, LLC YANG, ANDREW 3775 §112 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jun 25, 2025
19231148 METHOD FOR NAVIGATING FLEXIBLE URINARY CATHETERS Foldé Inc. TOWA, RENE T 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Jun 06, 2025
18753850 MACHINE LEARNING BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUDGET MANAGEMENT Insight Systems, Inc. SIMPSON, DIONE N 3628 §101 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jun 25, 2024
18707061 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR USING INDIVIDUALIZED GENOME ASSEMBLIES AND INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL LINES OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES FOR PRE-CLINICAL EVALUATION Exir LLC ZHU, JIANJIAN 1631 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending May 02, 2024
18693918 PORTABLE PHYSICAL PARALLEL BAR SYSTEM Wareologie, Inc. LETTERMAN, CATRINA A 3784 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Mar 20, 2024
18546508 CONTINUOUS FLOWCELL MONITORING APPARATUSES AND METHODS Kinetic River Corp. HENDIJA, MAYA 2877 §103 Final Rejection 99d overdue Pending Aug 15, 2023
18344006 DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES Q Bio, Inc. HUYNH, VAN D 2665 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 29, 2023
17934438 IRRIGATION CATHETER WITH OPTIONAL ENTERAL FEEDING FUNCTIONALITY OR STOMACH-IN FLUID ASPIRATION FUNCTIONALITY Endovision Foundation RODRIGUEZ, CRIS LOIREN 3783 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Sep 22, 2022
17905865 SYRINGE APPARATUS AND SYRINGE ADAPTER DEVICE Medica Instrumentae Limited TRINH, HONG-VAN N 3783 §103 Final Rejection 68d Pending Sep 08, 2022

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