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
Komar Industries LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to a single art unit. The prosecution is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current patent efforts into a single administrative channel. This lack of distribution suggests that the company's immediate patent outcomes are highly dependent on this specific examination path.
DARRELL CHRISTOPHER FORD is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing the pending office action. This single action is the only case currently active for the company. The presence of a single examiner and art unit indicates a streamlined prosecution landscape. This allows for a focused strategy directed at the specific requirements of DARRELL CHRISTOPHER FORD and the technical standards of the assigned art unit. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the active prosecution by analyzing the previous work of the assigned examiner. The concentration within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area and a single art unit provides a clear, albeit narrow, framework for the company's current patent prosecution activities.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198947 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR SEPARATING MATERIALS FROM SKIDS AND PALLETS | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 98d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198947 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR SEPARATING MATERIALS FROM SKIDS AND PALLETS | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 98d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198947 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR SEPARATING MATERIALS FROM SKIDS AND PALLETS | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 3726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 98d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
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