Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kinamed Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters are distributed across 3 examiners and 2 art units, indicating examiner diversity with some art-unit concentration.
KOTIS, JOSHUA G is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should track examiner-specific practice while accounting for the shared art-unit context.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 1 | 74.4% | +57.1% |
| PRICE, NATHAN R | 1 | 53.4% | +38.7% |
| VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 1 | 59.1% | +50.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200703 | MEDICAL IMPLANTS WITH NANO SURFACES | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 38d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200703 | MEDICAL IMPLANTS WITH NANO SURFACES | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 38d overdue |
| 17875745 | BONE PREPARATION METHOD FOR ENHANCING OSSEOINTEGRATION | PRICE, NATHAN R | — |
| 17343989 | BONE PREPARATION SYSTEM | VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18200703 | MEDICAL IMPLANTS WITH NANO SURFACES | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 17875745 | BONE PREPARATION METHOD FOR ENHANCING OSSEOINTEGRATION | PRICE, NATHAN R | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 17343989 | BONE PREPARATION SYSTEM | VARGAS, ANNA ELIZABETH | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialKinamed Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Joshua G Kotis has the most, with 1 of Kinamed Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
