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
Damjan Puljic is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which represents a highly concentrated workload. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technical scope of the current application is focused within a specific department at the USPTO. For the applicant, this means that the entire prosecution strategy is currently centered on a single set of examiner interactions. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a concentrated approach to securing patent rights in this field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this individual is the point of contact for the company's active patent matters. This lack of distribution across multiple examiners or art units means that the portfolio's progress is tied directly to the 1 pending office action. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this 1 examiner to advance the company's intellectual property goals within the 1 identified art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | 1 | 76.6% | +21.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683276 | TOOL FOR MAKING WOODEN STRAWS AND THE PROCESS OF PRODUCTION | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683276 | TOOL FOR MAKING WOODEN STRAWS AND THE PROCESS OF PRODUCTION | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18683276 | TOOL FOR MAKING WOODEN STRAWS AND THE PROCESS OF PRODUCTION | KIM, BOBBY YEONJIN | 3725 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
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