Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Biodaptive Advanced Materials LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners but are located within 1 distinct art unit. MARCETICH, ADAM M is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending action. This structure shows that the company's medical device technology is being reviewed by multiple officials within a single administrative group.
The concentration of 2 pending office actions within 1 distinct art unit suggests a unified technical focus for the portfolio. Although there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the busiest examiner, MARCETICH, ADAM M, only manages 1 pending case. This distribution ensures that the 2 pending office actions are reviewed by different individuals within the same specialized group. Practitioners should expect consistent technical requirements from the 1 distinct art unit, even while managing the specific preferences of 2 distinct examiners. This 1 distinct art unit serves as the primary administrative hub for the company's current prosecution efforts.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARCETICH, ADAM M | 1 | 72.7% | +18.8% |
| STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 1 | 75.6% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17943790 | FLEXIBLE ABSORBENT BANDAGE | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 39d |
| 18399155 | BANDAGE COMPONENT WITH SAP COATING | MARCETICH, ADAM M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18399155 | BANDAGE COMPONENT WITH SAP COATING | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 17943790 | FLEXIBLE ABSORBENT BANDAGE | STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
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