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
North Star Medical Inc. has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The action involves 1 examiner and 1 art unit.
JACOB, OOMMEN is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can direct claim analysis and response preparation to that single examination assignment.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACOB, OOMMEN | 1 | 79.2% | +17.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18944754 | CATHETER, SHEATH OR DILATOR FOR HEART VALVE DECALCIFICATION TREATMENT AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | JACOB, OOMMEN | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18944754 | CATHETER, SHEATH OR DILATOR FOR HEART VALVE DECALCIFICATION TREATMENT AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | JACOB, OOMMEN | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNorth Star Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Oommen Jacob has the most, with 1 of North Star Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
