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
Kpx Electrochem Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This 1 to 1 ratio across the action, examiner, and art unit reflects a specific prosecution focus for the company. By operating within 1 art unit, the company maintains a narrow procedural footprint at the patent office. This structure allows the legal team to focus their resources on the requirements of a specific technical group within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The busiest examiner is DION, MARCEL T, who has 1 pending office action. This 1 action is the only pending office action in the portfolio. With 1 examiner managing the 1 active action, the company's current prosecution is entirely centralized. For the practitioner, understanding the specific preferences of DION, MARCEL T is the primary factor in the current prosecution strategy. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be determined by the review and feedback provided by this identified examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DION, MARCEL T | 1 | 40.8% | +37.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565843 | WINDOW-MOUNTED POLISHING PAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | DION, MARCEL T | 41d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565843 | WINDOW-MOUNTED POLISHING PAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | DION, MARCEL T | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18565843 | WINDOW-MOUNTED POLISHING PAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | DION, MARCEL T | 3723 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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