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12 pending office actions • 6 clients • 9 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 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. 12 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 | 7 (58%) |
| §102 only | 2 (17%) |
| §112 only | 2 (17%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 4 | 78.0% | +11.8% |
| GUGGER, SEAN A | 1 | 64.5% | +22.9% |
| ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 65.4% | +27.0% |
| HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 1 | 78.1% | +18.9% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.1% | +14.9% |
| CABRAL, ROBERT S | 1 | 62.3% | +32.6% |
| JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 1 | 62.7% | +47.0% |
| JANG, JAEICK | 1 | 65.6% | +52.7% |
| SIPP, AMY R. | 1 | 70.5% | +26.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18372631 | METHOD OF FORMING TISSUE FIXATION WITH A PATCH | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 229d overdue |
| 17398984 | HYBRID SPINAL CAGES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SIPP, AMY R. | 141d overdue |
| 17960075 | Disposable PAPR with Viral Resistant Coatings | JANG, JAEICK | 128d overdue |
| 18209972 | OSSEOINTEGRATIVE IMPLANTS | CABRAL, ROBERT S | 45d overdue |
| 18373185 | SPINAL MOTION RESTORATION | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 42d overdue |
| 18594385 | POSTERIOR TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENT | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 30d overdue |
| 18329908 | SOFT ANCHORS HAVING INCREASED ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN DEPLOYMENT SUTURES AND SLEEVE | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 30d overdue |
| 18226197 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ALTERING SPINAL LORDOSIS AND/OR KYPHOSIS | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 10d overdue |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| 3SPINE, INC | 5 |
| RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLC | 2 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 2 |
| Northern Lights, Inc | 1 |
| ABC Med Tech | 1 |
| ABC Filtration Corp. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 5 |
| 3771 | 2 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031595 | SPINAL ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS | 3Spine, Inc. | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19007520 | SUPPLEMENTAL POWER SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR GENERATOR | Northern Lights, Inc. | GUGGER, SEAN A | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jan 01, 2025 |
| 18594385 | POSTERIOR TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENT | 3Spine, Inc. | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18373185 | SPINAL MOTION RESTORATION | 3Spine, Inc. | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18372631 | METHOD OF FORMING TISSUE FIXATION WITH A PATCH | Riverpoint Medical, LLC | ORKIN, ALEXANDER J | 3771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 229d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18236368 | RESTORING SPINAL ALIGNMENT AND/OR RANGE OF MOTION USING BILATERAL IMPLANTS | 3Spine, Inc. | HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY | 3773 | Other | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18231941 | Portable Centrifuge Apparatus & Methods | Abc Med Tech Corp. | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18226197 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ALTERING SPINAL LORDOSIS AND/OR KYPHOSIS | 3Spine, Inc. | HAMMOND, ELLEN CHRISTINA | 3773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18209972 | OSSEOINTEGRATIVE IMPLANTS | Ctl Medical Corporation | CABRAL, ROBERT S | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18329908 | SOFT ANCHORS HAVING INCREASED ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN DEPLOYMENT SUTURES AND SLEEVE | Riverpoint Medical, LLC | JAFFRI, ZEHRA | 3771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 17960075 | Disposable PAPR with Viral Resistant Coatings | Abc Filtration Corp. | JANG, JAEICK | 3785 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 128d overdue | Pending | Oct 04, 2022 |
| 17398984 | HYBRID SPINAL CAGES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Ctl Medical Corporation | SIPP, AMY R. | 3775 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 141d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2021 |
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