Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Radiatric Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a streamlined prosecution profile. MARCETICH, ADAM M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling the pending action.
Since the portfolio involves a single distinct art unit, the company faces a singular set of examination criteria for its current pending matter. This allows for a highly targeted response strategy during the patent acquisition process. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific technical standards and procedural expectations of the assigned art unit without the need to manage conflicting feedback from multiple groups.
The involvement of a single examiner simplifies the coordination of interviews and the submission of amendments. By concentrating the prosecution in this manner, the applicant can ensure that all communications with the USPTO are consistent. This approach is particularly effective for navigating the complex mechanical and medical requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, where precise claim language is essential for success.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARCETICH, ADAM M | 1 | 72.7% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562052 | EXTRACORPOREAL DISINFECTION SYSTEM | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562052 | EXTRACORPOREAL DISINFECTION SYSTEM | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 3781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
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