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
Starling Medical Inc. maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is located within 1 distinct art unit and is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This focused prosecution footprint suggests that the company is currently prioritizing a specific technical advancement within the medical device sector. The use of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the current filing is concentrated within a single technical discipline at the patent office, rather than spanning multiple fields. This allows for a streamlined prosecution strategy that targets the specific expertise of the assigned unit.
ADAM M MARCETICH is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. Since this examiner is the only official currently reviewing the company's filings, the immediate progress of the patent portfolio is dependent on the specific feedback and examination pace of this individual. For practitioners, this concentration allows for a highly tailored response strategy that addresses the particular requirements of this examiner. With 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is tied to the resolution of this single case. This singular focus enables the company to dedicate its resources to a specific set of patent office interactions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498752 | BODILY FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MARCETICH, ADAM M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498752 | BODILY FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MARCETICH, ADAM M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18498752 | BODILY FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MARCETICH, ADAM M | 3781 | §101§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
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