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
Harpoon Medical Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent activity is concentrated in a single technological and administrative sector. The focus on 1 distinct art unit allows for an examination environment where the company can apply targeted arguments within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
The busiest examiner, RWEGO, KANKINDI, is responsible for the 1 pending office action. As there is only 1 pending action in the entire portfolio, this examiner is the sole point of contact for current prosecution. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination trends within this single art unit. Managing the pending office action with the identified examiner requires attention to individual preferences while benefiting from the shared standards of the art unit. This structure allows the company to focus its resources on the specific requirements of its current medical device filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RWEGO, KANKINDI | 1 | 74.7% | +34.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19031342 | TISSUE ANCHOR DEPLOYMENT | RWEGO, KANKINDI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031342 | TISSUE ANCHOR DEPLOYMENT | RWEGO, KANKINDI | 3771 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialHarpoon Medical Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kankindi Rwego has the most, with 1 of Harpoon Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
