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
Synapstim currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BROWN, KYLE MARTZ, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This means the company's current patent prosecution is entirely dependent on the review of a single examiner within the patent office. For the practitioner, this suggests that the prosecution strategy should be highly tailored to the specific preferences and history of this one examiner.
The activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current interaction with the patent office is highly localized, with a single examiner in a single art unit responsible for the entirety of the pending workload. This lack of distribution across different art units or examiners suggests a highly specialized invention that falls squarely within a single regulatory niche, requiring a focused and consistent legal approach during prosecution. Success in this matter will depend on a deep understanding of the assigned examiner's past rulings and technical standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 1 | 8.8% | +3.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701599 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRICALLY STIMULATING TISSUE | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18701599 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRICALLY STIMULATING TISSUE | BROWN, KYLE MARTZ | 3794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSynapstim has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kyle Martz Brown has the most, with 1 of Synapstim's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
