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
Jcc Splash LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, pointing to a highly specific area of technical inquiry. The fact that the company's current pending matter is confined to the identified art unit suggests a focused effort to secure rights in a particular mechanical or medical niche.
KIM, EUGENE LEE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This examiner is currently the only official reviewing the company's pending applications. Because the entirety of the company's active prosecution is in the hands of KIM, EUGENE LEE, the outcome of this single matter will define the company's immediate success at the USPTO.
The presence of only a single pending office action suggests that the company's current prosecution phase is relatively quiet. While this reduces the immediate burden on the company's intellectual property budget, it also means that the company's future patent position in the medical device space is currently tied to the outcome of this specific matter. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific feedback provided by this single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, EUGENE LEE | 1 | 20.7% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18505588 | ADJUSTABLE BUOYANCY BALL AND SWIMMING POOL GAME | KIM, EUGENE LEE | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18505588 | ADJUSTABLE BUOYANCY BALL AND SWIMMING POOL GAME | KIM, EUGENE LEE | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18505588 | ADJUSTABLE BUOYANCY BALL AND SWIMMING POOL GAME | KIM, EUGENE LEE | 3711 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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