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
Alcare Co. Ltd. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio features 1 pending office action. This specific volume of activity indicates the current scale of the company's engagement with the patent office in this technical sector.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. Having a single point of contact in the patent office means that the company's current filings are subject to a very specific set of examination criteria. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the subject matter is highly specialized within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
KIM, ERIN ASA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since this individual is responsible for the only pending action, the immediate prosecution results for Alcare Co. Ltd. are tied to this single examiner's review. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of KIM, ERIN ASA to move this 1 pending office action toward a final resolution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, ERIN ASA | 1 | 69.0% | +34.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835740 | MEDICAL COMPONENT AND EXCREMENT STORAGE DEVICE | KIM, ERIN ASA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835740 | MEDICAL COMPONENT AND EXCREMENT STORAGE DEVICE | KIM, ERIN ASA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835740 | MEDICAL COMPONENT AND EXCREMENT STORAGE DEVICE | KIM, ERIN ASA | 3781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAlcare Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Erin Asa Kim has the most, with 1 of Alcare Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
