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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
5 11 Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution profile is focused on this single pending matter. This indicates a very specific technical engagement with the patent office at this time. The concentration in a single art unit means that the specialized review is localized within one division of the patent office.
Katharine Gracz Kane is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current interaction with the patent office is highly centralized. This indicates a specific and singular technical review process for the pending innovation. This centralized structure allows for a consistent dialogue with the patent office, as all feedback originates from the same examiner and specialized division. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are concentrated on a specific niche within the medical devices and mechanical engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 1 | 47.7% | +45.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19042835 | PROTECTIVE GARMENT SYSTEM | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19042835 | PROTECTIVE GARMENT SYSTEM | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
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