Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Circumfix Solutions Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that a single individual is reviewing all of the company's current pending matters in this field.
KU, SI MING is the busiest examiner, with a busiest examiner pending count of 2. Because the busiest examiner pending count of 2 matches the total number of pending office actions, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's active docket. This allows for a consistent prosecution approach across the portfolio.
Having 2 pending office actions assigned to 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the management of the active docket. The practitioner can apply insights gained from one action directly to the other, given the shared examiner and art unit context. This arrangement minimizes the variety of examination styles the company must address in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KU, SI MING | 2 | 72.8% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19188921 | BONE REPAIR DEVICES AND METHODS | KU, SI MING | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19291188 | BONE REPAIR DEVICES AND METHODS | KU, SI MING | — |
| 19188921 | BONE REPAIR DEVICES AND METHODS | KU, SI MING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19291188 | BONE REPAIR DEVICES AND METHODS | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19188921 | BONE REPAIR DEVICES AND METHODS | KU, SI MING | 3775 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialCircumfix Solutions Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Si Ming Ku has the most, with 2 of Circumfix Solutions Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
