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
Cryogenx Limited Central Research Laboratory is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action constitutes the entirety of the company's current active prosecution efforts. The review process is highly concentrated, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's immediate legal focus is directed toward a single point of contact within a specific department of the patent office.
The examiner assigned to this case is SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's path to patent issuance in this sector is currently defined by the decisions and requirements of this one individual. This lack of diversification means that the outcome of this single action is critical for the portfolio.
With 1 pending office action being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, the company faces a streamlined prosecution environment. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit confirms that the technical subject matter is situated within a specific niche of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific examination style of SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH, as this examiner holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action for the company. The presence of the single examiner simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 58.0% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254095 | A WEARABLE COOLING APPARATUS FOR ON-SITE TREATMENT OF HEAT ILLNESS | SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18254095 | A WEARABLE COOLING APPARATUS FOR ON-SITE TREATMENT OF HEAT ILLNESS | SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
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