Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
15 pending office actions • 1 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dorco Co., Ltd. has 14 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 14 of these actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. The company works with 6 distinct examiners. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's 14 pending office actions involve very similar technical subject matter.
ELLA LORRAINE KEENA is the busiest examiner, currently managing 5 pending actions. This represents 5 of the 14 total pending office actions. With 6 distinct examiners involved, the company has a high degree of examiner overlap within a single art unit. For a practitioner, this means that the interpretations of ELLA LORRAINE KEENA will have a major impact on the portfolio, and strategies successful with her may be applicable across multiple of the 14 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 5 | 9.1% | +19.4% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 4 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| DONG, LIANG | 2 | 53.2% | +32.9% |
| BUI, LUAN KIM | 1 | 69.0% | +28.4% |
| AYALA, FERNANDO A | 1 | 53.6% | +26.2% |
| PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 1 | 73.9% | +30.0% |
| PRONE, JASON D | 1 | 61.9% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678443 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 36d overdue |
| 18247873 | RAZOR BLADE HAVING AN ASYMMETRICAL EDGE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 55d |
| 19300198 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE PROTECTIVE CASE | BUI, LUAN KIM | — |
| 19198451 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE PROTECTIVE CASE | AYALA, FERNANDO A | — |
| 19179411 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
| 18917871 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE AND RAZOR ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE SAME | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | — |
| 18733394 | RAZOR BLADE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
| 18675637 | Razor blade | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678443 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 36d overdue |
| 18247873 | RAZOR BLADE HAVING AN ASYMMETRICAL EDGE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 55d |
| 19300198 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE PROTECTIVE CASE | BUI, LUAN KIM | — |
| 19198451 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE PROTECTIVE CASE | AYALA, FERNANDO A | — |
| 19179411 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
| 18948000 | RAZOR BLADE | DONG, LIANG | — |
| 18917871 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE AND RAZOR ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE SAME | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | — |
| 18733394 | RAZOR BLADE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 13 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19300198 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE PROTECTIVE CASE | BUI, LUAN KIM | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19198451 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE PROTECTIVE CASE | AYALA, FERNANDO A | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19179411 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 18948000 | RAZOR BLADE | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18917871 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE AND RAZOR ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE SAME | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18733394 | RAZOR BLADE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18678443 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18675637 | Razor blade | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18667239 | RAZOR BLADE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18647533 | RAZOR HANDLE | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18508902 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE AND RAZOR ASSEMBLY INCLUDING SAME | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18504612 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE AND RAZOR ASSEMBLY | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18336293 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18247873 | RAZOR BLADE HAVING AN ASYMMETRICAL EDGE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
| 18058617 | RAZOR CARTRIDGE | PRONE, JASON D | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
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