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
Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre & Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (Iit Madras) has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution is centralized under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, pointing to a highly specific area of technical inquiry. The fact that the company's current pending matter is confined to the identified art unit suggests a focused effort to secure rights in a particular medical niche.
KOLKIN, ADAM D. serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is currently the sole point of contact for the company's pending office actions. Because the entirety of the company's active prosecution is in the hands of KOLKIN, ADAM D., the outcome of this single matter will define the company's immediate success at the USPTO.
Practitioners should note that the administrative overhead for this portfolio is minimal due to the single pending office action. However, the concentration of the company's current patent prospects in the hands of one examiner means that the outcome of this specific case will significantly define the company's intellectual property landscape in the near term. The workload represents the full scope of active USPTO engagement for the company at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 1 | 45.0% | +6.2% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18504653 | IMAGE-FREE ULTRASOUND FOR NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF EARLY VASCULAR HEALTH MARKERS | KOLKIN, ADAM D. | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHealthcare Technology Innovation Centre & Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (Iit Madras) has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Adam D. Kolkin has the most, with 1 of Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre & Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (Iit Madras)'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
