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
Mikafi GmbH is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of only 1 pending office action indicates a specific and concentrated prosecution effort at this time. The company's current patent strategy is focused on 1 technical matter within the mechanical engineering field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's work. This lack of examiner diversity means that the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to the specific examination style of this 1 individual. Furthermore, the use of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented falls under a single administrative category.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 61.3% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18041450 | Coffee Roaster | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 73d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18041450 | Coffee Roaster | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMikafi GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kevin Guanhua Wen has the most, with 1 of Mikafi GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
