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
Scitech Medical Inc. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This single active matter suggests a focused prosecution strategy for the company's medical innovations. The firm is currently working to resolve this action to move its application toward allowance.
The portfolio is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current intellectual property is concentrated within a specific technical classification at the patent office. The lack of diversity in examiners and art units means that the prosecution process is consistent, with a single set of standards being applied to the pending matter.
BARIA, DINAH N is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since BARIA, DINAH N handles the only active matter, this individual is the primary gatekeeper for the company's current patent goals. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination style of BARIA, DINAH N to successfully resolve the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARIA, DINAH N | 1 | 72.9% | +28.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18360284 | A Drug-Eluting Stent Comprising a Biocompatible Thermoplastic Polymer Lining and a Drug- Containing Coating | BARIA, DINAH N | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18360284 | A Drug-Eluting Stent Comprising a Biocompatible Thermoplastic Polymer Lining and a Drug- Containing Coating | BARIA, DINAH N | 3774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
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