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
Komax Sle GmbH & Co. Kg has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus means that the company's active patent applications are not currently facing a broad range of examiners or departmental standards. The concentration in a single art unit indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific mechanical or medical innovation. This allows for a very targeted legal approach that addresses the specific technical standards of this one department.
PAUL D KIM is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. Since this 1 pending matter is the only active action, the company's immediate prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the feedback from this specific examiner. This centralized activity allows for a focused response strategy but lacks the risk mitigation of a more distributed portfolio. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's specific approach to Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering to better prepare for the resolution of this 1 pending matter. The outcome of the current prosecution cycle depends on successfully navigating the requirements of this single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, PAUL D | 1 | 87.7% | +6.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18337193 | MODULE AND SYSTEM FOR ASSEMBLING ELECTRICAL CABLES | KIM, PAUL D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18337193 | MODULE AND SYSTEM FOR ASSEMBLING ELECTRICAL CABLES | KIM, PAUL D | 3729 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKomax Sle GmbH & Co. Kg has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Paul D Kim has the most, with 1 of Komax Sle GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
