Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kelvin Thermal Technologies Inc. is managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 3 of these actions are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, yet they are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners. This specific concentration in a single art unit suggests that the company's technology is specialized within a specific mechanical field. The busiest examiner, HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A, is responsible for 1 pending action, showing an even distribution of work.
The involvement of 3 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit means that the company will receive three different perspectives from the same department. Practitioners can benefit from this by comparing the feedback from each examiner to identify common themes or conflicting requirements within that art unit. However, the relationship of pending actions to examiners means no single official can resolve more than one matter.
With 3 pending office actions, the company must maintain a consistent technical narrative across all filings to ensure success in the 1 distinct art unit. The fact that HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A and the other two examiners each have only 1 pending action prevents any consolidation of the prosecution effort. This structure requires a coordinated approach to handle the 3 distinct examiners simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 1 | 60.0% | +22.8% |
| BHATTACHAN, BIGYAN NMN | 1 | — | — |
| LANE, DEVON | 1 | 55.8% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963254 | Deformed Mesh Thermal Ground Plane | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 23d overdue |
| 18779455 | Three-Dimensional Meshes and Casings for Thermal Ground Planes | BHATTACHAN, BIGYAN NMN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963254 | Deformed Mesh Thermal Ground Plane | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 23d overdue |
| 18666811 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT PLANES | LANE, DEVON | 68d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18963254 | Deformed Mesh Thermal Ground Plane | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18779455 | Three-Dimensional Meshes and Casings for Thermal Ground Planes | BHATTACHAN, BIGYAN NMN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18666811 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT PLANES | LANE, DEVON | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
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