Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kakao Games Corp. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical focus for the company's current patent applications. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual within that single unit. This structure allows for a relatively centralized legal strategy compared to portfolios spread across multiple units.
WASAFF, JOHN S. is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This specific examiner is responsible for a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. The presence of 1 distinct art unit combined with 2 distinct examiners shows that the company's workload is being handled by multiple people within the same technical group. Having 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to WASAFF, JOHN S. ensures that at least one examiner is familiar with the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RENWICK, REGINALD A | 1 | 70.3% | +9.8% |
| WASAFF, JOHN S. | 1 | 33.8% | +44.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292702 | Method And Device For Detecting Multi-Access Account By Using Similarity Degree Between Nicknames | RENWICK, REGINALD A | 31d overdue |
| 18292864 | Method And Device For User Information Prediction Using Play Log | WASAFF, JOHN S. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292864 | Method And Device For User Information Prediction Using Play Log | WASAFF, JOHN S. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18292702 | Method And Device For Detecting Multi-Access Account By Using Similarity Degree Between Nicknames | RENWICK, REGINALD A | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18292864 | Method And Device For User Information Prediction Using Play Log | WASAFF, JOHN S. | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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