Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Metalmark Innovations Pbc has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being processed by 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This spread across different examiners and units suggests that the company's medical device technology may be multifaceted, touching on different mechanical or clinical classifications. Navigating 2 distinct art units requires the company to manage different examination expectations and procedural nuances across the patent office.
HASAN, SABBIR is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The presence of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions indicates that each examiner is currently managing one active matter. This even distribution of work means that no single examiner has a dominant role in the company's current pending portfolio. For the applicant, this provides a balanced prosecution environment where each application is being reviewed independently by different specialized staff members.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASAN, SABBIR | 1 | 88.0% | +15.3% |
| SPAMER, DONALD R | 1 | 59.2% | +32.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18606207 | Silent Fan | HASAN, SABBIR | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18474339 | Porous Materials For Treating Contaminants | SPAMER, DONALD R | 4d overdue |
| 18606207 | Silent Fan | HASAN, SABBIR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18606207 | Silent Fan | HASAN, SABBIR | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18474339 | Porous Materials For Treating Contaminants | SPAMER, DONALD R | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
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