Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 1 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
BODYFRIEND CO., LTD. is managing a significant workload with 11 pending office actions. These actions are concentrated within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Despite the high volume of 11 pending office actions, they are all situated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very narrow technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts and a consistent examination environment within that specific unit.
The prosecution is distributed among 10 distinct examiners. DAHER, KIRA B is the busiest examiner, holding 2 busiest examiner pending actions. The remaining actions are spread across the other 10 distinct examiners. This structure indicates that while the art unit is consistent, the company must navigate the varying perspectives of a large group of examiners to advance its matters. Managing this diverse group of examiners requires a coordinated strategy to ensure consistency in arguments across the portfolio. This high volume of activity within a single art unit suggests a focused but resource-intensive prosecution phase.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 7 (64%) |
| §103 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (27%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAHER, KIRA B | 2 | 41.6% | +54.3% |
| ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | 1 | 69.2% | +28.8% |
| LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA | 1 | 31.3% | +70.9% |
| BISHOP, JAMIE HAEBIN | 1 | — | — |
| SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 1 | 54.8% | +55.9% |
| WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN | 1 | 71.2% | +27.1% |
| WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 1 | 47.1% | +34.7% |
| ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | 1 | 48.3% | +53.6% |
| VO, TU A | 1 | 60.6% | +58.9% |
| BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | 1 | 46.2% | +64.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280835 | MASSAGE DEVICE COMPRISING ROTATABLE ARM MASSAGE PART | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 4d overdue |
| 18242160 | MASSAGE APPARATUS HAVING ROTATABLE ARM MASSAGE UNIT | DAHER, KIRA B | 13d |
| 18836895 | MASSAGE DEVICE FOR PROVIDING MASSAGE MODE FOR STRETCHING USER'S LEGS | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | — |
| 18703670 | MASSAGE APPARATUS FOR PULLING WAIST | LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA | — |
| 18436958 | MASSAGE APPARATUS CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING POSITION OF ARM MASSAGE UNIT | BISHOP, JAMIE HAEBIN | — |
| 18386830 | LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE AND MASSAGE APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | — |
| 18289353 | HYBRID MASSAGE MODULE OF MASSAGE DEVICE | WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN | — |
| 18280620 | MASSAGE DEVICE HAVING ROTATABLE ARM MASSAGE UNIT | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280835 | MASSAGE DEVICE COMPRISING ROTATABLE ARM MASSAGE PART | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 4d overdue |
| 18242160 | MASSAGE APPARATUS HAVING ROTATABLE ARM MASSAGE UNIT | DAHER, KIRA B | 13d |
| 18836895 | MASSAGE DEVICE FOR PROVIDING MASSAGE MODE FOR STRETCHING USER'S LEGS | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | — |
| 18703670 | MASSAGE APPARATUS FOR PULLING WAIST | LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA | — |
| 18291499 | MASSAGE DEVICE FOR PROVIDING MASSAGE FOR BLOOD PRESSURE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING MASSAGE DEVICE | DAHER, KIRA B | — |
| 18386830 | LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE AND MASSAGE APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | — |
| 18289353 | HYBRID MASSAGE MODULE OF MASSAGE DEVICE | WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN | — |
| 18280620 | MASSAGE DEVICE HAVING ROTATABLE ARM MASSAGE UNIT | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18836895 | MASSAGE DEVICE FOR PROVIDING MASSAGE MODE FOR STRETCHING USER'S LEGS | ROZANSKI, MICHAEL T | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18703670 | MASSAGE APPARATUS FOR PULLING WAIST | LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18436958 | MASSAGE APPARATUS CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING POSITION OF ARM MASSAGE UNIT | BISHOP, JAMIE HAEBIN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18291499 | MASSAGE DEVICE FOR PROVIDING MASSAGE FOR BLOOD PRESSURE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING MASSAGE DEVICE | DAHER, KIRA B | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18386830 | LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE AND MASSAGE APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 3785 | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18289353 | HYBRID MASSAGE MODULE OF MASSAGE DEVICE | WOODWARD, VALERIE LYNN | 3785 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18280835 | MASSAGE DEVICE COMPRISING ROTATABLE ARM MASSAGE PART | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 3785 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18280620 | MASSAGE DEVICE HAVING ROTATABLE ARM MASSAGE UNIT | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | 3785 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18242160 | MASSAGE APPARATUS HAVING ROTATABLE ARM MASSAGE UNIT | DAHER, KIRA B | 3785 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18276037 | MASSAGE DEVICE INCLUDING SAFETY SENSOR | VO, TU A | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2023 |
| 18258859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ELECTROCARDIOGRAM ON BASIS OF DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM | BICKHAM, DAWN MARIE | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
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