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
Inthekeg Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, suggesting a focused approach to the company's current patent applications. The workload is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which means the technical evaluation is being conducted by a specific group of examiners within the USPTO. This concentration of effort allows for a more consistent application of technical standards to the company's inventions.
THONG, YEONG JUEN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. As this is the only 1 pending office action for the company, this examiner's review is critical to the portfolio's immediate progress. The alignment of the busiest examiner's workload with the total pending actions simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property strategy by narrowing the focus to a single official. The company can dedicate its resources to addressing the specific concerns of this examiner to advance its patent goals.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THONG, YEONG JUEN | 1 | 49.4% | +53.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012641 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING FERMENTED BEVERAGES | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012641 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING FERMENTED BEVERAGES | THONG, YEONG JUEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18012641 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING FERMENTED BEVERAGES | THONG, YEONG JUEN | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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