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
Kinematic Automation Inc. is currently handling 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KOTIS, JOSHUA G, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific and narrow focus for the company's current patent office interactions.
KOTIS, JOSHUA G manages the total volume of the company's active office actions, centralizing the prosecution process for this portfolio within the medical devices sector. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the legal strategy is concentrated on a single point of review within 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should note that the outcome of the company's current patent activity depends entirely on the evaluation of this 1 distinct examiner. This streamlined structure allows for a direct and focused engagement with the patent office during the examination of the company's medical device technology.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 1 | 74.2% | +57.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899445 | MEDICAL TEST DEVICE PACKAGE, PACKAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PACKAGING A MEDICAL TEST DEVICE | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 26d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899445 | MEDICAL TEST DEVICE PACKAGE, PACKAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PACKAGING A MEDICAL TEST DEVICE | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 26d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18899445 | MEDICAL TEST DEVICE PACKAGE, PACKAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PACKAGING A MEDICAL TEST DEVICE | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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