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
Masal Inc. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and currently has 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and is housed within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner identified for the company is CARTER, TARA ROSE E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This single matter is processed through 1 distinct art unit, which is consistent with the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area designation.
The portfolio's current activity is limited to the active workload managed by 1 distinct examiner. The busiest examiner pending 1 action covers the company's entire active docket. The data indicates a highly concentrated prosecution stage for Masal Inc., with only the current matter requiring attention. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current interactions with the patent office are centralized.
CARTER, TARA ROSE E represents the sole point of examiner contact for the pending matter currently in the system. This concentration ensures that the company's legal progress is tied to a specific technical and procedural path within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Practitioners should observe that the 1 distinct art unit provides a singular framework for the evaluation of the company's current patent application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 1 | 80.7% | +9.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19088837 | Spinal Stability System with Expandable Cannula | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19088837 | Spinal Stability System with Expandable Cannula | CARTER, TARA ROSE E | 3773 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialMasal Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tara Rose E Carter has the most, with 1 of Masal Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
