Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
O2 Partners LLC has 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. Stella Kim Yi is the busiest examiner, overseeing 2 pending actions. The remaining actions are split between the other examiners.
The distribution across 2 art units suggests the company is pursuing multiple mechanical or medical sub-specialties. Practitioners should note that Yi's 2 pending actions make her a primary point of contact for the portfolio's current prosecution. With 4 pending office actions and 3 examiners, the company must manage several individual examiner relationships. The focus on 2 distinct art units indicates a concentrated technical scope despite the involvement of multiple examiners. Successfully resolving the 4 pending actions will require navigating the specific requirements of both art units. The presence of 3 examiners for 4 actions ensures that the workload is not overly concentrated on a single official.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YI, STELLA KIM | 2 | 71.0% | +28.5% |
| LYNCH, MEGAN E | 1 | 38.2% | +40.0% |
| PIERORAZIO, JILLIAN KUTCH | 1 | 59.0% | +32.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18975860 | Fiber-Based Shoe Insoles and Methods of Manufacturing the Same | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 28d |
| 18298877 | FIBER-FOAM SHOE INSOLES, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PIERORAZIO, JILLIAN KUTCH | 33d |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18975860 | Fiber-Based Shoe Insoles and Methods of Manufacturing the Same | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 28d |
| 18298877 | FIBER-FOAM SHOE INSOLES, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PIERORAZIO, JILLIAN KUTCH | 33d |
| 18254640 | BIODEGRADABLE, INDUSTRIALLY COMPOSTABLE, AND RECYCLABLE INJECTION MOLDED MICROCELLULAR FLEXIBLE FOAMS | YI, STELLA KIM | 56d |
| 19018162 | Biodegradable, Industrially Compostable, and Recyclable Injection Molded Microcellular Flexible Foams | YI, STELLA KIM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19018162 | Biodegradable, Industrially Compostable, and Recyclable Injection Molded Microcellular Flexible Foams | YI, STELLA KIM | — | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18975860 | Fiber-Based Shoe Insoles and Methods of Manufacturing the Same | LYNCH, MEGAN E | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18254640 | BIODEGRADABLE, INDUSTRIALLY COMPOSTABLE, AND RECYCLABLE INJECTION MOLDED MICROCELLULAR FLEXIBLE FOAMS | YI, STELLA KIM | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18298877 | FIBER-FOAM SHOE INSOLES, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PIERORAZIO, JILLIAN KUTCH | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
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