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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Knappco LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Christopher M Afful is the 1 distinct examiner and busiest examiner. The activity is limited to a distinct art unit. This pending office action defines the current active prosecution landscape for the company.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFFUL, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 75.9% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19082483 | POSITION BASED SMART ELBOW CROSSOVER PROTECTION SYSTEM | AFFUL, CHRISTOPHER M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19082483 | POSITION BASED SMART ELBOW CROSSOVER PROTECTION SYSTEM | AFFUL, CHRISTOPHER M | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
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