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
Kabushiki Take Wing maintains a company patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action. This indicates a focused and streamlined approach to securing intellectual property rights within this engineering sector, suggesting a strategy of pursuing specific technological improvements.
The prosecution process is centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This structure suggests that the company's current patent applications are being reviewed in a highly specific technical niche. The use of only 1 distinct art unit implies a lack of technological dispersion across the active portfolio, which can lead to more predictable prosecution cycles. For the practitioner, this concentration allows for a deep understanding of the specific examiner's preferences and requirements.
DIANNE DORNBUSCH is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action accounts for the total volume of 1 pending office action currently recorded for the company. Consequently, the progress of the entire active portfolio is currently determined by the review of this individual examiner. This alignment ensures that the company's interaction with the patent office remains consistent across its active filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | 1 | 73.9% | +35.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823292 | SUTURING INSTRUMENT AND SUTURING POSITIONING INSTRUMENT AND SYSTEM | DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18823292 | SUTURING INSTRUMENT AND SUTURING POSITIONING INSTRUMENT AND SYSTEM | DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18823292 | SUTURING INSTRUMENT AND SUTURING POSITIONING INSTRUMENT AND SYSTEM | DORNBUSCH, DIANNE | 3771 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
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