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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yung Soon Lih Food Machine Co. Ltd. currently faces 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing no fragmentation in the company's current patent prosecution. Such a consolidated profile indicates that the company is dealing with a single set of technical standards and examination criteria. With 1 pending office action, the administrative process is streamlined, allowing for a focused response to the patent office's concerns.
The busiest examiner, KHLOK, BONITA, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for all active responses required by the portfolio at this time. The fact that KHLOK, BONITA is the sole examiner for the company's 1 pending office action means that the success of the current prosecution depends on a single point of contact. This lack of diversity among distinct examiners or art units simplifies the management of the portfolio but also increases the impact of this individual examiner's decisions on the company's intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHLOK, BONITA | 1 | 49.1% | +48.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17886537 | COOKING DEVICE | KHLOK, BONITA | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17886537 | COOKING DEVICE | KHLOK, BONITA | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
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