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
Marz Medical Inc. operates a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Current records show 1 pending office action, which is the only active examination matter for the company. This workload is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a consolidated approach to the current prosecution cycle.
The prosecution is confined to a distinct art unit. SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the 1 pending office action. With only a single action in total, the examiner's workload represents the full scope of the company's current interactions with the patent office.
This structure suggests a highly specific focus for the company's medical device intellectual property efforts. A practitioner should prioritize a clear and concise technical narrative, as the assigned examiner is the sole evaluator of the company's mechanical engineering innovations 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | 1 | 75.4% | +7.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17958942 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IN SITU TISSUE EXPANSION | SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17958942 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IN SITU TISSUE EXPANSION | SNOW, BRUCE EDWARD | 3774 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMarz Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Bruce Edward Snow has the most, with 1 of Marz Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
