Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Endotheia Inc. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's prosecution profile currently includes 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, suggesting a highly targeted approach to securing patents in this field. Such a narrow distribution often indicates a very specific technological focus or a nascent stage of portfolio development within the United States patent system.
The busiest examiner for Endotheia Inc. is STARKEY, OLIVIA GRACE, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. The fact that only 1 distinct art unit is involved indicates that the company's active filings fall within a specific technical niche. This concentration means there is no opportunity to compare different examiner behaviors or art unit standards within the company's current workload, requiring a strategy tailored to a single set of expectations.
All strategic decisions must be focused on the 1 distinct art unit, making the outcome of the 1 pending office action a critical indicator of progress. Practitioners should note that STARKEY, OLIVIA GRACE is the sole official determining the immediate trajectory of the portfolio. This streamlined data set reflects a period of focused prosecution activity where the technical nuances of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are handled by a single point of contact at the patent office.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STARKEY, OLIVIA GRACE | 1 | 70.4% | -4.8% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18082435 | Method and Device for Endoscopic Aspiration | STARKEY, OLIVIA GRACE | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
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