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
Vaikin Kansepts Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a highly focused technical review process. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit means the company is dealing with a specialized group of examiners who focus on medical and mechanical systems. The 1 pending office action represents the company's current effort to secure patent rights for its specific technological development.
IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The company's pending workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, ensuring that the entire application is under the review of a single individual. This use of 1 distinct examiner provides a 1 point of contact but also means the prosecution is tied to the viewpoint of 1 official. Because the busiest examiner handles 1 pending office action, the company's current patent office activity is highly centralized and focused on a single administrative path.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 1 | 55.4% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18965874 | Re-configurable and re-sizable modular storage container system | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18965874 | Re-configurable and re-sizable modular storage container system | IMPINK, MOLLIE LLEWELLYN | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
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