Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mips AB operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently managing 5 pending office actions. Prosecution is handled by 3 distinct examiners. All current activity is located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical classification for these filings. KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 2 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3 | 47.9% | +45.5% |
| QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 2 | 51.4% | +30.3% |
| DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 2 | 44.9% | +45.7% |
| MORAN, KATHERINE M | 1 | 54.3% | +24.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010385 | CONNECTOR | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 42d overdue |
| 19180041 | HELMET | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 31d overdue |
| 18993480 | PROTECTIVE APPAREL AND HELMET | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 31d overdue |
| 18008862 | HELMET | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 8d |
| 19481493 | HELMET | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | — |
| 19124265 | PART OF A PROTECTIVE APPARATUS AND PROTECTIVE APPARATUS | MORAN, KATHERINE M | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010385 | CONNECTOR | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 42d overdue |
| 19180041 | HELMET | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 31d overdue |
| 18993480 | PROTECTIVE APPAREL AND HELMET | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 31d overdue |
| 18289760 | HELMET | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 16d overdue |
| 18008862 | HELMET | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 8d |
| 18290408 | HELMET | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 30d |
| 19481493 | HELMET | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | — |
| 19124265 | PART OF A PROTECTIVE APPARATUS AND PROTECTIVE APPARATUS | MORAN, KATHERINE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 8 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19481493 | HELMET | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19124265 | PART OF A PROTECTIVE APPARATUS AND PROTECTIVE APPARATUS | MORAN, KATHERINE M | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19180041 | HELMET | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 18993480 | PROTECTIVE APPAREL AND HELMET | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18290408 | HELMET | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18289760 | HELMET | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18010385 | CONNECTOR | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 18008862 | HELMET | KANE, KATHARINE GRACZ | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMips AB has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
Katharine Gracz Kane has the most, with 3 of Mips AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.