Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Combine-It BV has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is localized in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated effort in a specific mechanical or medical niche. This singular focus suggests that the company's current intellectual property strategy is not diversified across different technical classifications or examination groups.
The presence of 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action means that the company's current patent success is tied to 1 individual's review process. Because the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit, there is no current diversification across different examination groups. This singular focus in both examiner and art unit suggests a streamlined but highly dependent prosecution path for the company's current intellectual property. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements and historical tendencies of STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN, as this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 1 | 39.1% | +35.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697971 | ASSEMBLY SYSTEM FOR 3D SHAPES WITH BEADS | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 1d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697971 | ASSEMBLY SYSTEM FOR 3D SHAPES WITH BEADS | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697971 | ASSEMBLY SYSTEM FOR 3D SHAPES WITH BEADS | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 3711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCombine-It BV has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew Brian Stanczak has the most, with 1 of Combine-It BV's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
