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
Dornoch Medical Systems Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused prosecution footprint for the company's current intellectual property efforts. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is currently prioritizing a specific technological advancement rather than a broad array of mechanical innovations.
The busiest examiner, MARCETICH, ADAM M, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This individual examiner handles the entirety of the company's pending actions, making the relationship with this examiner the primary factor in the portfolio's current advancement. Because the portfolio currently has 1 pending office action, the overall success of the company's recent filings depends entirely on the resolution of this single matter with the assigned examiner. Practitioners should prioritize a direct response to the 1 pending office action to ensure continued progress.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARCETICH, ADAM M | 1 | 72.8% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608164 | MEDICAL WASTE FLUID COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL SYSTEM | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608164 | MEDICAL WASTE FLUID COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL SYSTEM | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18608164 | MEDICAL WASTE FLUID COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL SYSTEM | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 3781 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDornoch Medical Systems Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Adam M Marcetich has the most, with 1 of Dornoch Medical Systems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
