Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kyra Medical Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are being reviewed in 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each of the company's active filings is being handled by a different individual within a different technical group at the patent office. This distribution suggests that the company's medical and mechanical innovations are diverse enough to fall into separate administrative categories.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MEDWAY, SCOTT J, who is managing 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is evenly split between the 2 distinct examiners. This 1 to 1 ratio of pending actions to examiners and art units means that no single examiner or art unit has a majority of the company's current work. For practitioners, this requires managing two distinct prosecution tracks, as each of the 2 active matters is being evaluated by a different examiner in a different art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 1 | 66.7% | +23.4% |
| WEINHOLD, INGRID M | 1 | 47.0% | +42.6% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17683884 | MEANS OF ATTACHING A DISPOSABLE DRAINAGE BAG FOR UROLOGICAL, GYNECOLOGICAL AND OTHER SURGICAL PROCEDURES | WEINHOLD, INGRID M | 111d overdue |
| 18134382 | FLUID SOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18134382 | FLUID SOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MEDWAY, SCOTT J | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 17683884 | MEANS OF ATTACHING A DISPOSABLE DRAINAGE BAG FOR UROLOGICAL, GYNECOLOGICAL AND OTHER SURGICAL PROCEDURES | WEINHOLD, INGRID M | 3632 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 111d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2022 |
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