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
Universität Zürich Prorektorat Forschung has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to examiner KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI, who is the 1 distinct examiner for the portfolio. The action is situated within 1 distinct art unit. KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This represents a concentrated prosecution effort with 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner.
Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of the assigned official to navigate the 1 pending office action. The alignment of the pending action within 1 distinct art unit suggests a specialized technical focus within the medical devices sector. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the applicant can maintain a consistent dialogue throughout the prosecution process. This structure in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area allows for a targeted legal strategy that addresses the specific concerns of a single patent office official. The lack of multiple pending matters or examiners simplifies the management of this intellectual property asset.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 1 | 73.9% | +55.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18808218 | METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASSISTING POSITIONING OF A TOOL WITH RESPECT TO A SPECIFIC BODY PART OF A PATIENT | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18808218 | METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASSISTING POSITIONING OF A TOOL WITH RESPECT TO A SPECIFIC BODY PART OF A PATIENT | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18808218 | METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASSISTING POSITIONING OF A TOOL WITH RESPECT TO A SPECIFIC BODY PART OF A PATIENT | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
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