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
Reb LLC shows a concentrated prosecution profile featuring 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being processed in a distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow technical scope for the company's current patenting activity. The assignment of a distinct examiner to the portfolio indicates a specific point of review.
KAITLYN ELIZABETH SMITH is the busiest examiner for Reb LLC, overseeing the pending office action. With a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, the company's immediate legal strategy is focused on a specific mechanical or medical advancement. This streamlined data reflects a targeted approach to securing intellectual property. The 1 distinct art unit represents the total current workload for the busiest examiner in this portfolio. Such a focused arrangement allows for a clear and direct prosecution path.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 1 | 58.0% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899652 | HEATING GARMENT | SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18899652 | HEATING GARMENT | SMITH, KAITLYN ELIZABETH | 3794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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