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
Allied Vision Finning GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit. WOO, JAE KYUN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The concentration of work under a single examiner suggests a highly focused prosecution effort at this stage. With 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit, the company is engaging with a specific technical niche in the medical and mechanical fields. This structure allows the company to focus its resources on a single interaction with WOO, JAE KYUN. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner for the entire pending portfolio means that the outcome of this single office action is currently the primary focus of the company's patent prosecution.
Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit involved will dictate the examination standards for the company's current filing. Because WOO, JAE KYUN is the only examiner, the company's success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area depends on this specific relationship. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current activity at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOO, JAE KYUN | 1 | 59.8% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18717500 | Endoscope and endoscope system for cardio-float applications | WOO, JAE KYUN | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18717500 | Endoscope and endoscope system for cardio-float applications | WOO, JAE KYUN | 3795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
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