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
Kypheze Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action, which is the only active matter in the company's prosecution pipeline. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT, who is also the busiest examiner for the company. The data indicates that BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action, covering the entire current workload.
The prosecution is conducted within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow administrative and technical focus for the company's medical device filings. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action rests solely with BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT. There is no examiner or art unit diversity to provide alternative perspectives or to spread the risk of a negative examination. The 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner represent the total environment for the company's current patent review process. The pending office action is the only case currently being evaluated within this specific technical and administrative framework.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 1 | 70.1% | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537133 | BONE EXPANSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537133 | BONE EXPANSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18537133 | BONE EXPANSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT | 3775 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKypheze Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sameh Raafat Boles has the most, with 1 of Kypheze Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.