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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kadia Produktion GmbH + Co. is currently engaged in patent prosecution within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This single action is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated focus for the company's current intellectual property activities. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KIM, SANG K, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
Because there is only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, KIM, SANG K is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's applications. This relationship between total pending actions and the busiest examiner's workload means that the company's immediate success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector depends on this interaction. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of KIM, SANG K and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit to navigate the 1 pending office action.
This streamlined prosecution environment, featuring 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, allows for a targeted and efficient response strategy for the company's pending patent matter. The alignment of the busiest examiner's workload with the total pending actions simplifies the management of the portfolio's current legal standing. Understanding the tendencies of KIM, SANG K will be important for the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.4% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18289376 | FINISHING METHOD AND FINISHING MACHINE FOR MEASUREMENT-ASSISTED FINISHING OF BORES | KIM, SANG K | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18289376 | FINISHING METHOD AND FINISHING MACHINE FOR MEASUREMENT-ASSISTED FINISHING OF BORES | KIM, SANG K | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18289376 | FINISHING METHOD AND FINISHING MACHINE FOR MEASUREMENT-ASSISTED FINISHING OF BORES | KIM, SANG K | 3745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
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