Technology area: Communications
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
Kico Knee Innovation Company Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Communications technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner is BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the 1 pending office action is reviewed by a single individual. Practitioners should address the requirements of BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN, who manages the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The Communications technology area provides the technical framework for this filing.
The prosecution outcome depends on the interpretation of the assigned examiner. Practitioners can focus on the standards of the specific art unit involved. This structure allows for a strategy directed at the individual examiner feedback rather than coordinating across multiple office departments.
Administrative tasks are limited by the number of active examiners and art units. Efforts should be made to understand the examiner review style and past actions. Communication with the assigned individual is a method for navigating the current prosecution phase and resolving the outstanding action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17905681 | IMAGE PROCESSING FOR INTRAOPERATIVE GUIDANCE SYSTEMS | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17905681 | IMAGE PROCESSING FOR INTRAOPERATIVE GUIDANCE SYSTEMS | BLACKSTEN, SYDNEY LYNN | 2674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKico Knee Innovation Company Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sydney Lynn Blacksten has the most, with 1 of Kico Knee Innovation Company Pty Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
