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
University Of Maribor is engaged in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The limited number of active matters suggests a specific focus for the university's current intellectual property prosecution, with the workload following a lone administrative route. This focused prosecution profile suggests that the university is currently prioritizing a specific medical device innovation within its intellectual property portfolio.
The busiest examiner for University Of Maribor is PORTILLO, JAIRO H. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that this examiner is the sole official currently reviewing the university's active applications, prosecution strategy can be focused on the specific requirements and historical tendencies of this individual. The university's current path to patent issuance is consolidated under this single examiner, making their specific feedback the primary concern for legal counsel during the prosecution process. The consolidation of the workload under a single examiner means that the university's success in this field is directly tied to the resolution of this individual's review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 1 | 53.4% | +30.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17270361 | Neural Interface | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17270361 | Neural Interface | PORTILLO, JAIRO H | 3791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialUniversity Of Maribor has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jairo H Portillo has the most, with 1 of University Of Maribor's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
