Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Destinus SA has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners but are assigned to 1 distinct art unit, showing examiner dispersion within a single technical group.
KIM, CRAIG SANG is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The common art-unit assignment may support technical coordination, while the separate examiner assignments require attention to each matter’s examination record and claim presentation.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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, CRAIG SANG | 1 | 86.4% | +9.9% |
| MALATEK, KATHERYN A | 1 | 86.2% | +44.3% |
| SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | 1 | 79.9% | +28.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19124240 | AIR TURBOROCKET APPARATUS WITH BOILER | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19142114 | AIR TURBOROCKET APPARATUS WITH PRECOOLER HEAT EXCHANGER AT THE AIR INTAKE | KIM, CRAIG SANG | — |
| 19099429 | AIR TURBOROCKET WITH AN OPTIMIZED AIR-MIXER | SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19124240 | AIR TURBOROCKET APPARATUS WITH BOILER | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | — |
| 19099429 | AIR TURBOROCKET WITH AN OPTIMIZED AIR-MIXER | SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19142114 | AIR TURBOROCKET APPARATUS WITH PRECOOLER HEAT EXCHANGER AT THE AIR INTAKE | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19124240 | AIR TURBOROCKET APPARATUS WITH BOILER | MALATEK, KATHERYN A | 3741 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19099429 | AIR TURBOROCKET WITH AN OPTIMIZED AIR-MIXER | SUNG, GERALD LUTHER | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialDestinus SA has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Craig Sang Kim has the most, with 1 of Destinus SA's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
