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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nikola Dobrilovic LLC maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This single matter is located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated technical scope for the company's current intellectual property efforts. For the applicant, this concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the examiner's review will be informed by a very specific set of prior art and technical standards common to that division.
Prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner, PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D. As the busiest examiner, PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 1, PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D is the sole official reviewing the company's active applications. This 1 to 1 ratio between total pending actions and those assigned to the busiest examiner shows that all current legal hurdles for the company are consolidated under a single individual's review. This concentration in 1 art unit with 1 examiner means that the company's immediate prosecution outcomes are tied to the specific interpretations and procedural habits of a single individual.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 64.9% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463230 | HEART VALVE PROSTHETIC RING SYSTEM | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18463230 | HEART VALVE PROSTHETIC RING SYSTEM | PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D | 3774 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNikola Dobrilovic LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher D Prone has the most, with 1 of Nikola Dobrilovic LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
