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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Knapp AG currently has 1 pending office action within its portfolio. This action is situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a very concentrated phase of patent prosecution for the company's current filings.
The prosecution landscape for this entity features 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This relationship between the examiner and the art unit means that the company's active matter is being reviewed by an administrative group. For practitioners, this centralization simplifies the prosecution process as it involves a point of contact within the patent office.
CHEUNG, CHUN HOI is the busiest examiner for this company, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the entirety of the company's 1 pending office action. This means that CHEUNG, CHUN HOI has sole influence over the current outcome for the company's filing in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
The concentration in 1 distinct art unit and under 1 distinct examiner allows for a highly focused prosecution strategy. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style and previous rulings of CHEUNG, CHUN HOI. The resolution of the 1 pending office action will be governed by the technical interpretations and administrative standards applied by this 1 distinct examiner within this 1 art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 1 | 62.4% | +39.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855021 | Medication packaging | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18855021 | Medication packaging | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18855021 | Medication packaging | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
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