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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Facet Technologies LLC currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. The data indicates that the portfolio is active in 0 distinct art units.
With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner involved, the current prosecution activity is highly focused. The role of SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN is central to the portfolio's immediate outcomes, as this examiner manages the entirety of the company's pending workload.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 1 | 78.3% | +21.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19235070 | LATCH MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING LANCET OSCILLATION IN A LANCING DEVICE | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19235070 | LATCH MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING LANCET OSCILLATION IN A LANCING DEVICE | SHI, KATHERINE MENGLIN | 3771 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialFacet Technologies LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Katherine Menglin Shi has the most, with 1 of Facet Technologies LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.