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
K&L Pack Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The narrow scope of current activity suggests a focused patenting effort in this specific technical field, with all current examination concentrated in one area. This allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single technical conversation with the patent office rather than managing multiple disparate tracks.
DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R serves as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the current filing is being evaluated within a single specialized examination group at the patent office. This concentration allows the company to focus its prosecution resources on the specific requirements and trends of this individual examiner and art unit. Practitioners should note that such a focused portfolio requires a deep understanding of the specific art unit's precedents to successfully navigate the 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542958 | PACKAGING ENVELOPE INSERTION-TYPE PAPER BUFFER SAFETY MEMBER | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 41d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542958 | PACKAGING ENVELOPE INSERTION-TYPE PAPER BUFFER SAFETY MEMBER | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18542958 | PACKAGING ENVELOPE INSERTION-TYPE PAPER BUFFER SAFETY MEMBER | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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