Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Kreg Medical Inc.

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

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

Analysis

Kreg Medical Inc. is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The matter is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus indicates that the company's current pending patent activity is concentrated in one specific technical and administrative area of the patent office. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of this 1 distinct art unit.

KURILLA, ERIC J is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. This single examiner is responsible for the company's entire pending workload. Since there is only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the outcome of this case is the primary factor in the company's current prosecution status. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technology is specialized within the transportation and mechanical systems domain.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
1
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Double-patenting + other1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KURILLA, ERIC J 1 70.6% +26.4%

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19038398 BED WITH FRAME ASSEMBLY KURILLA, ERIC J —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3619 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19038398 BED WITH FRAME ASSEMBLY KURILLA, ERIC J 3619 §112DPOther Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 27, 2025

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