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
Karnali Innovations LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is being reviewed in 1 distinct art unit by 1 distinct examiner. The company's current prosecution activity is entirely focused on this one application, making it the primary focus of their intellectual property efforts in this sector.
NGUYEN, UYEN T is the busiest examiner, holding the 1 pending office action. Because the entire active portfolio is concentrated with this one examiner in a single art unit, the outcome of this prosecution is the primary focus for the company's current patent efforts. Practitioners should focus on the specific history and tendencies of this examiner to navigate the pending action effectively, as there are no other active matters to provide alternative paths for patent acquisition.
The narrow focus of 1 pending office action in 1 art unit allows for a highly specialized prosecution strategy. For a practitioner, this means that all resources can be directed toward addressing the specific concerns of NGUYEN, UYEN T. While this concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio, it also increases the significance of every communication with this single examiner, as the company's current standing in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area depends on this one case.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, UYEN T | 1 | 40.0% | +36.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19544165 | ANTI-INFECTIVE SHOE SOLES | NGUYEN, UYEN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19544165 | ANTI-INFECTIVE SHOE SOLES | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 3732 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2026 |
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