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
Jong Ho Kim has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
GORMAN, DARREN W is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile is concentrated in that single examination assignment, making direct review of the pending record the appropriate focus.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GORMAN, DARREN W | 1 | 79.2% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033111 | DUSTPROOF SPRINKLERS | GORMAN, DARREN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033111 | DUSTPROOF SPRINKLERS | GORMAN, DARREN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18033111 | DUSTPROOF SPRINKLERS | GORMAN, DARREN W | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialJong Ho Kim has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Darren W Gorman has the most, with 1 of Jong Ho Kim's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
