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
Jb Surgical Pty Ltd. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, where it currently faces 1 pending office action. This single action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, showing a very focused prosecution pipeline. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit further confirms that the company's current patent efforts are concentrated within a specific technical niche of the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this matches the total count of 1 pending office action, the examiner's individual perspective is the primary factor in the company's current prosecution outcomes. Practitioners managing the Jb Surgical Pty Ltd. portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector should prioritize understanding the specific examination style of RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN, as this single relationship defines the current state of their pending applications.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | 1 | 55.1% | +38.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872786 | APPARATUS | RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872786 | APPARATUS | RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872786 | APPARATUS | RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | 3786 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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