Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Frond Medical Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are both located within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the technical oversight of the portfolio at the USPTO. Such concentration in a single art unit allows for a unified prosecution strategy, though the company is working with 2 distinct examiners to resolve these specific matters. Each examiner may bring a unique perspective to the mechanical aspects of the applications.
KAITLYN EUNJI KIM is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. With both pending actions considered, the company must coordinate its prosecution strategy across different examiners despite the shared art unit classification. This distribution ensures that the company's success is not entirely tied to a single examiner's discretion, even while the technical focus remains narrow. Effective management will involve tracking the individual tendencies of both examiners within this specific medical device art unit.
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) | 2 (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, KAITLYN EUNJI | 1 | 73.9% | +55.8% |
| COCHRAN, KARI LEE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869143 | Systems and Methods for Endoluminal Tracking with Therapeutic Delivery Sensing | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | — |
| 18905753 | DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PLACEMENT OF ENDOLUMINAL DEVICES | COCHRAN, KARI LEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869143 | Systems and Methods for Endoluminal Tracking with Therapeutic Delivery Sensing | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18869143 | Systems and Methods for Endoluminal Tracking with Therapeutic Delivery Sensing | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 3797 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18905753 | DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PLACEMENT OF ENDOLUMINAL DEVICES | COCHRAN, KARI LEE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
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