Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kumovis GmbH is navigating the patent prosecution process in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions, which are being handled by 3 distinct examiners. This ratio of actions to examiners indicates that each of the company's active applications is being scrutinized by a different individual at the USPTO. This arrangement necessitates a prosecution strategy that can accommodate these different examination styles and potentially different technical interpretations of the company's inventions.
The active prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's technology is categorized into at least 2 different specialized technical groups. TRAN, VI N is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. For practitioners, this distribution across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units means that prosecution strategies must be carefully tailored. The focus should be on addressing the specific expectations of each examiner while maintaining a unified technical position across the different art units to ensure the overall structure of the patent portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, VI N | 1 | 46.4% | +34.1% |
| COCHRAN, KARI LEE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| FLORES, ADRIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18248679 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DEVICE, METHOD AND MEDICAL DEVICE THEREFOR | FLORES, ADRIAN | 39d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485246 | 3D-PRINTED SEMI-FINISHED PART FOR MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING AND MEDICAL DEVICES THEREOF | COCHRAN, KARI LEE | 23d |
| 18708033 | A METHOD OF PRODUCING A COMPONENT, AND THE COMPONENT ITSELF | TRAN, VI N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708033 | A METHOD OF PRODUCING A COMPONENT, AND THE COMPONENT ITSELF | TRAN, VI N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3774 | 2 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18708033 | A METHOD OF PRODUCING A COMPONENT, AND THE COMPONENT ITSELF | TRAN, VI N | 2169 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18485246 | 3D-PRINTED SEMI-FINISHED PART FOR MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING AND MEDICAL DEVICES THEREOF | COCHRAN, KARI LEE | 3774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18248679 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DEVICE, METHOD AND MEDICAL DEVICE THEREFOR | FLORES, ADRIAN | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
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