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
Kompass Kicks LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, representing a very concentrated prosecution profile. The company's current interaction with the USPTO is focused on this single matter, with no other pending actions reported.
Katharine Gracz Kane is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for the 1 pending office action. This single action represents the full extent of the company's current pending prosecution, making her the sole official involved. The prosecution landscape is currently singular and concentrated on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit.
For practitioners, the 1 to 1 ratio of actions to examiners means that the success of the current portfolio depends entirely on the interaction with Katharine Gracz Kane. There are no other pending office actions to coordinate, which simplifies the technical and procedural requirements. The focus remains on meeting the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit while addressing the examiner's individual feedback.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 1 | 47.9% | +45.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19010621 | ADAPTIVE FOOTWARE APPARATUS FOR ACCOMMODATING ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19010621 | ADAPTIVE FOOTWARE APPARATUS FOR ACCOMMODATING ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKompass Kicks LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Katharine Gracz Kane has the most, with 1 of Kompass Kicks LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
