Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Ningbo Feifan Plastic Industry Co., Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CRAIG SANG KIM. The portfolio is active within 1 distinct art unit.
CRAIG SANG KIM is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. As the company only has 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for the entire active portfolio. This allows for a highly focused prosecution effort within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the prosecution landscape.
Practitioners can focus on the specific requirements and tendencies of CRAIG SANG KIM. This singular focus is characteristic of portfolios with a single active matter. By concentrating resources on one examiner and one art unit, the company can develop a deep understanding of the specific standards applied to their Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications. This structure minimizes the administrative burden of tracking different examiner behaviors.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, CRAIG SANG | 1 | 86.3% | +9.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646537 | SPRINKLING CAN | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18646537 | SPRINKLING CAN | KIM, CRAIG SANG | 3741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
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