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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Knight Aerospace is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action currently on record. This activity is restricted to 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a specific focus for the company's current mechanical patent applications. This approach indicates a strategic emphasis on a particular technical niche within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
The prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS is the busiest examiner for Knight Aerospace, handling 1 pending office action. This means that the company's current patent office workload is assigned to a single examiner. The use of 1 distinct examiner suggests a centralized review process where all communication is directed through this official, which simplifies the management of the portfolio.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution profile is highly centralized. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit involved represents the sole point of contact for the company's current patenting activity. Since MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS handles 1 pending office action, the outcome depends on this individual's interpretation of the claims.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 1 | 71.7% | +31.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17824084 | AEROMEDICAL BIO-CONTAINMENT MODULE | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17824084 | AEROMEDICAL BIO-CONTAINMENT MODULE | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17824084 | AEROMEDICAL BIO-CONTAINMENT MODULE | MATTHEWS, CHRISTINE HOPKINS | 3791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
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