Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vieworks Co. Ltd. is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a portfolio that spans multiple technical classifications within the USPTO. The prosecution workload involves 3 distinct examiners.
KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending action. The presence of 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is navigating different examination styles and technical requirements simultaneously. This distribution ensures that the workload is not concentrated under a single individual.
The 3 pending office actions represent the current active engagement for Vieworks Co. Ltd. in its specified technology area. Practitioners can observe that the busiest examiner pending count of 1 is consistent with a distributed prosecution strategy across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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% |
| SHEN, QUN | 1 | 76.4% | +37.5% |
| GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | 1 | 80.6% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18604692 | BENDABLE DETECTOR | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18915923 | ANIMAL IN-VIVO IMAGING DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 29d |
| 18784210 | GOLF LAUNCH MONITOR AND TARGET ALIGNMENT METHOD OF GOLF LAUNCH MONITOR | SHEN, QUN | — |
| 18604692 | BENDABLE DETECTOR | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18915923 | ANIMAL IN-VIVO IMAGING DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | KIM, KAITLYN EUNJI | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18784210 | GOLF LAUNCH MONITOR AND TARGET ALIGNMENT METHOD OF GOLF LAUNCH MONITOR | SHEN, QUN | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18604692 | BENDABLE DETECTOR | GUTIERREZ, GISSELLE M | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
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