Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being processed within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a cohesive technical focus for the current filings. Despite being in a single art unit, the work is divided between 2 distinct examiners, providing two separate channels for negotiation and review within the same technical classification.
The busiest examiner, BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, the portfolio is not concentrated under any single individual's discretion. This structure allows the firm to navigate the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit through multiple examiner perspectives. The presence of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners ensures that the prosecution of one application does not directly bottleneck the other. Practitioners can compare the feedback from the 2 distinct examiners to better understand the internal standards of the single art unit being engaged.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | 1 | 58.6% | +58.7% |
| HAN, ROBIN | 1 | 33.8% | +61.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18625582 | PROTECTION DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED FILTER MASK AND EYE SHIELD | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18608687 | PROTECTION DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED FILTER MASK AND EYE SHIELD WITH MAGNIFICATION LENSES | HAN, ROBIN | 146d overdue |
| 18625582 | PROTECTION DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED FILTER MASK AND EYE SHIELD | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18625582 | PROTECTION DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED FILTER MASK AND EYE SHIELD | BUGG, PAIGE KATHLEEN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18608687 | PROTECTION DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED FILTER MASK AND EYE SHIELD WITH MAGNIFICATION LENSES | HAN, ROBIN | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 146d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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