Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kob GmbH maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio is currently active with 3 pending office actions. This level of activity indicates a robust prosecution phase, as the company is simultaneously managing multiple applications through the patent office's review process within the medical and mechanical sectors.
The prosecution is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows a high level of diversity in the examination process, with each pending action being reviewed by a different individual in a different administrative group. This variety suggests that the company's mechanical innovations span several different technical classifications, requiring a broad and adaptable prosecution strategy to handle the various perspectives of the 3 distinct examiners.
LEWIS, KIM M is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. In this portfolio, the workload is evenly spread, as the busiest examiner's pending count of 1 is only a portion of the 3 pending office actions total. This means that no single examiner dominates the portfolio's current trajectory, and the company must successfully navigate the requirements of three separate examiners to advance its 3 pending office actions.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, KIM M | 1 | 74.0% | +12.8% |
| PATEL, TAJASH D | 1 | 80.8% | +7.3% |
| PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 1 | 28.0% | +43.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278341 | FLAT TEXTILE MATERIAL HAVING INTEGRATED POCKETS FOR RECEIVING ELECTRICAL AND/OR ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS FOR MEDICAL MEASUREMENT AND/OR CONTROL PURPOSES | PATEL, TAJASH D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17784177 | APPLIANCE FOR MONITORING THE COMPRESSION THERAPY PROVIDED BY A COMPRESSION MEANS | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17784177 | APPLIANCE FOR MONITORING THE COMPRESSION THERAPY PROVIDED BY A COMPRESSION MEANS | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 28d |
| 18569393 | BANDAGE FOR ENCLOSING A LEG REGION OR ARM REGION OF A LIVING BEING | LEWIS, KIM M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18569393 | BANDAGE FOR ENCLOSING A LEG REGION OR ARM REGION OF A LIVING BEING | LEWIS, KIM M | 3786 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18278341 | FLAT TEXTILE MATERIAL HAVING INTEGRATED POCKETS FOR RECEIVING ELECTRICAL AND/OR ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS FOR MEDICAL MEASUREMENT AND/OR CONTROL PURPOSES | PATEL, TAJASH D | 3732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 17784177 | APPLIANCE FOR MONITORING THE COMPRESSION THERAPY PROVIDED BY A COMPRESSION MEANS | PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial