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
Inofab Saglik Teknolojileri Anonim Sirketi maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution activity is concentrated under a specific examiner, RHEE, KELSEY, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently on the docket. This indicates a highly centralized examination process where a specific individual's interpretation of the prior art will dictate the immediate outcome for the company's intellectual property. The applicant must be prepared for a consistent but potentially rigid review process.
The presence of a distinct art unit and a distinct examiner suggests that the portfolio's current legal challenges are narrow in scope. Because RHEE, KELSEY is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the applicant can focus their response strategy on the specific preferences and past tendencies of this official. This lack of examiner diversity means the company does not currently face conflicting requirements from different units. It also allows for a more predictable timeline as there are no competing priorities from other examiners.
With a pending office action to manage, the administrative burden on the prosecution team is minimal. The alignment of the entire pending workload under a distinct examiner allows for a consistent communication channel with the USPTO. This structure simplifies the strategic planning required for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, as the firm only needs to navigate the specific hurdles presented by a single examiner in a single art unit. This focus can lead to a more efficient path toward allowance if the examiner's concerns are addressed directly.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEE, KELSEY | 1 | 38.2% | +41.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17623638 | ATTACHMENT FOR MONITORING INHALER USAGE | RHEE, KELSEY | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17623638 | ATTACHMENT FOR MONITORING INHALER USAGE | RHEE, KELSEY | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Dec 29, 2021 |
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