Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kandu Health Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, showing a decentralized approach to the company's current prosecution. The busiest examiner, WU, TONG E, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending actions in total, each examiner is reviewing exactly 1 matter, which prevents any single examiner from having a dominant influence over the pending portfolio.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending actions indicates that the company's medical and mechanical innovations fall into different specialized categories. This requires practitioners to navigate 2 different sets of administrative standards and examiner styles simultaneously. Because the workload is split between 2 examiners, the company is exposed to a variety of perspectives within the patent office. This structure reduces the risk that a single examiner's specific tendencies will impact the entirety of the company's active patent applications.
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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WU, TONG E | 1 | 70.8% | +15.1% |
| HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 1 | 56.5% | +39.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286734 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIVARIATE STROKE DETECTION | WU, TONG E | 23d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286734 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIVARIATE STROKE DETECTION | WU, TONG E | 23d overdue |
| 18241761 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STROKE DETECTION AT A FOOT SITE | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3796 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18286734 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIVARIATE STROKE DETECTION | WU, TONG E | 3796 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18241761 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STROKE DETECTION AT A FOOT SITE | HOEKSTRA, JEFFREY GERBEN | 3791 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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