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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Blake Kassel has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The case is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, leaving a single examination channel for prosecution.
KENNEDY, JOSHUA T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The narrow assignment allows counsel to focus preparation on one technical unit and one examiner’s examination approach.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | 1 | 51.2% | +48.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202474 | EXERCISE MACHINE EMPLOYING ONE OR MORE FLEXIBLE TENSION BANDS | KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19202474 | EXERCISE MACHINE EMPLOYING ONE OR MORE FLEXIBLE TENSION BANDS | KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202474 | EXERCISE MACHINE EMPLOYING ONE OR MORE FLEXIBLE TENSION BANDS | KENNEDY, JOSHUA T | 3784 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialBlake Kassel has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joshua T Kennedy has the most, with 1 of Blake Kassel's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
