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
Koken Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution landscape for the company is defined by 1 pending office action. This single action is distributed across 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a narrow scope of active engagement with the patent office.
The organizational footprint of the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current filings are confined to a specific technical niche within the broader engineering field. ALBERS, KEVIN S is the busiest examiner associated with these filings.
ALBERS, KEVIN S is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This figure represents the totality of the portfolio's active office actions, as there is only 1 pending office action in the entire dataset. Consequently, the prosecution progress for Koken Ltd. is entirely dependent on the review process of this specific examiner within their designated art unit. This streamlined structure simplifies tracking but concentrates the company's immediate outcomes on a single administrative relationship.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALBERS, KEVIN S | 1 | 25.4% | +50.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099707 | Mask | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099707 | Mask | ALBERS, KEVIN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19099707 | Mask | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 3786 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKoken Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kevin S Albers has the most, with 1 of Koken Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
