Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Know Bio LLC has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating separate examiner and technical-group assignments.
JENNESS, NATHAN JAY handles 1 pending matter. Counsel should assess each matter according to its individual examination path.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | 1 | 54.0% | +37.4% |
| LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 1 | 69.4% | +29.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472349 | PHOTOTHERAPEUTIC ILLUMINATION DEVICES WITH MODULAR STRUCTURES | JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | 45d overdue |
| 18322257 | ILLUMINATION DEVICES FOR INDUCING BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472349 | PHOTOTHERAPEUTIC ILLUMINATION DEVICES WITH MODULAR STRUCTURES | JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | 45d overdue |
| 18322257 | ILLUMINATION DEVICES FOR INDUCING BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18472349 | PHOTOTHERAPEUTIC ILLUMINATION DEVICES WITH MODULAR STRUCTURES | JENNESS, NATHAN JAY | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18322257 | ILLUMINATION DEVICES FOR INDUCING BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS | LEVICKY, WILLIAM J | 3796 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKnow Bio LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Nathan Jay Jenness has the most, with 1 of Know Bio LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
