Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ideate Medical Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This focus indicates that the company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated in a specific administrative and technical niche at the office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner manages the entirety of the company's active workload. Practitioners should prepare for a prosecution experience defined by the individual tendencies of this 1 distinct examiner. The lack of other active cases means that the company's immediate success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field depends on this single point of review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 1 | 35.6% | +52.0% |
| CHEN, CHANGRU | 1 | 48.1% | +41.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18168706 | STERILIZATION APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED CONTAINER | CHEN, CHANGRU | 84d |
| 18931488 | PORT CONNECTORS | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18168706 | STERILIZATION APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED CONTAINER | CHEN, CHANGRU | 84d |
| 18931488 | PORT CONNECTORS | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18931488 | PORT CONNECTORS | SARANTAKOS, KAYLA ROSE | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18168706 | STERILIZATION APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED CONTAINER | CHEN, CHANGRU | 1796 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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