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
Step Ahead Medical LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action involves a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, reflecting a streamlined prosecution profile at this time. The concentration in a specific art unit suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a specific technical domain within medical engineering.
RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. As this examiner is the sole official reviewing the company's active applications, navigating the pending action effectively requires a clear understanding of this examiner's specific approach. The company's progress in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is currently tied to the outcome of this interaction with RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN. Focused attention on this examiner's requirements will be necessary to move the pending matter toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | 1 | 55.3% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749768 | ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS AND METHOD OF MAKING AND USING | RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749768 | ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS AND METHOD OF MAKING AND USING | RODRIQUEZ, KARI KRISTIN | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialStep Ahead Medical LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kari Kristin Rodriquez has the most, with 1 of Step Ahead Medical LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
