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
Stanley Medical Designs Inc. shows a concentrated prosecution effort in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The portfolio contains 1 pending office action situated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular focus for the entity's current intellectual property development.
The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, DARB, HAMZA A., who is also the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the entire active docket is managed by one person, the prosecution path is direct and centralized. This structure simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the influence of a single examiner's perspective.
For practitioners, the primary challenge is the lack of examiner variety, which means there are no alternative paths for the current docket. Every effort must be made to align the response with the specific expectations of the assigned examiner. The outcome of this single pending action will define the entity's current patenting trajectory.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARB, HAMZA A. | 1 | 74.4% | +30.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16935986 | Medical Lavage Device | DARB, HAMZA A. | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16935986 | Medical Lavage Device | DARB, HAMZA A. | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Jul 22, 2020 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial