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
Olympus Medical System Corp. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The workload is contained within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a narrow technical scope for the company's current patent activities.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WOO, JAE KYUN, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total pending office actions of 1, the company's immediate prosecution strategy depends entirely on the interactions with this specific individual. Practitioners should prepare for a focused dialogue, as there are no other examiners or art units currently influencing the portfolio's pending status. This concentration simplifies the monitoring process for the portfolio, as the entire pending volume is localized to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, allowing for a dedicated response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOO, JAE KYUN | 1 | 59.8% | +16.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797848 | DISTAL END COVER AND ENDOSCOPE | WOO, JAE KYUN | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797848 | DISTAL END COVER AND ENDOSCOPE | WOO, JAE KYUN | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18797848 | DISTAL END COVER AND ENDOSCOPE | WOO, JAE KYUN | 3795 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
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