Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ky7 Inc. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical subject matter within the broader engineering field. The prosecution work involves 5 distinct examiners, which suggests that each pending action is being handled by a different individual at the patent office. This distribution requires the company to manage multiple parallel prosecution tracks simultaneously.
Among these officials, SMALLEY, JAMES N is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. This specific examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, the presence of 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific tendencies of five different individuals. The spread across 4 art units further confirms that the portfolio touches on multiple specialized niches within the mechanical and medical device sectors. Navigating 5 distinct examiners across 4 art units indicates a fragmented prosecution landscape where no single examiner or art unit dominates the company's current legal efforts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.8% |
| AHMED, MOBEEN | 1 | 61.3% | +8.4% |
| GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 1 | 61.2% | +25.3% |
| ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 1 | 62.1% | +40.5% |
| GERTH, KATIE L | 1 | 75.8% | +16.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866211 | LID, CONTAINER WITH LID, AND COMBINATION OF LID AND CONTAINER | ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 31d overdue |
| 18869466 | LID, CONTAINER WITH LID, COMBINATION OF LID AND CONTAINER, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LID | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 69d |
| 19102756 | LID, CONTAINER WITH LID, AND COMBINATION OF LID AND CONTAINER | SMALLEY, JAMES N | — |
| 18874430 | SEALING MACHINE | AHMED, MOBEEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844235 | HOLDING JIG, SEALING DEVICE, AND SEALING METHOD | GERTH, KATIE L | 107d overdue |
| 18866211 | LID, CONTAINER WITH LID, AND COMBINATION OF LID AND CONTAINER | ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 31d overdue |
| 18869466 | LID, CONTAINER WITH LID, COMBINATION OF LID AND CONTAINER, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LID | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19102756 | LID, CONTAINER WITH LID, AND COMBINATION OF LID AND CONTAINER | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 18874430 | SEALING MACHINE | AHMED, MOBEEN | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18869466 | LID, CONTAINER WITH LID, COMBINATION OF LID AND CONTAINER, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LID | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 3735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18866211 | LID, CONTAINER WITH LID, AND COMBINATION OF LID AND CONTAINER | ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 3736 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18844235 | HOLDING JIG, SEALING DEVICE, AND SEALING METHOD | GERTH, KATIE L | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 107d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKy7 Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
James N Smalley has the most, with 1 of Ky7 Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
