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
Goliath Ip Stichting has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is assigned to STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The portfolio is currently managed by 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit.
This indicates a highly focused prosecution effort in the medical device field. With only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate success depends on navigating the requirements of STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN. The concentration in one art unit suggests a targeted technical focus that has not yet expanded into broader mechanical engineering disciplines.
Practitioners should analyze the examiner's historical allowance rates to better predict the timeline for this case. Because the entire active workload resides with an individual official, the company's patent strategy is sensitive to that person's specific requirements. Future expansion may require navigating additional art units as the company broadens its medical device filing strategy.
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 | 39.2% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18356216 | Toy Block Construction Set Made from Elastomeric Material | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18356216 | Toy Block Construction Set Made from Elastomeric Material | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18356216 | Toy Block Construction Set Made from Elastomeric Material | STANCZAK, MATTHEW BRIAN | 3711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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