Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
AKC PATENTS has managed 648 career applications, establishing a consistent presence in the patent landscape. The firm is currently handling 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This career application count provides a solid foundation for their current prosecution activities and examiner interactions.
The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 85.46 percent, demonstrating a high frequency of successful patent grants. This rate is paired with an average of 3.31 office actions per allowance. These metrics suggest that the firm is persistent in its prosecution efforts, often navigating more than three office actions to achieve a favorable result for its clients.
The 85.46 percent resolved allowance rate serves as a key performance metric for the firm's work in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. With 5 pending office actions currently active, the firm continues to apply its experience from 648 career applications. The 3.31 average office actions per allowance reflects the typical level of engagement required to move an application to allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANG, ANDREW | 1 | 84.3% | +10.4% |
| MARUF, SHEIKH | 1 | 86.8% | +9.1% |
| LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 1 | 80.8% | +16.2% |
| THEIS, MATTHEW T | 1 | 42.2% | +32.3% |
| GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 1 | 68.2% | +16.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140669 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES | MARUF, SHEIKH | 53d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18107474 | DEVICES AMD METHODS FOR SPINAL FACET JOINT FUSION | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 121d overdue |
| 15733950 | System and method for phonon-mediated excitation and de-excitation of nuclear states | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 93d overdue |
| 19262175 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SACROILIAC JOINT FUSING | YANG, ANDREW | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18107474 | DEVICES AMD METHODS FOR SPINAL FACET JOINT FUSION | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 121d overdue |
| 15733950 | System and method for phonon-mediated excitation and de-excitation of nuclear states | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 93d overdue |
| 18082920 | PAYLOAD SYSTEM FOR A BICYCLE AND OTHER OBJECTS | THEIS, MATTHEW T | 78d overdue |
| 19262175 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SACROILIAC JOINT FUSING | YANG, ANDREW | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| KIC VENTURES, LLC | 2 |
| NOHM DEVICES, INC. | 1 |
| SCHLEPTASTIC, LLC | 1 |
| CAMBRIDGE PHONON SYSTEMS, INC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3775 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 3773 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19262175 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SACROILIAC JOINT FUSING | Kic Ventures, LLC | YANG, ANDREW | 3775 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 18140669 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES | Nohm Devices, Inc. | MARUF, SHEIKH | 2897 | §103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18107474 | DEVICES AMD METHODS FOR SPINAL FACET JOINT FUSION | Kic Ventures, LLC | LANE, HOLLY JOANNA | 3773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 121d overdue | Pending | Feb 08, 2023 |
| 18082920 | PAYLOAD SYSTEM FOR A BICYCLE AND OTHER OBJECTS | Schleptastic, LLC | THEIS, MATTHEW T | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 78d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
| 15733950 | System and method for phonon-mediated excitation and de-excitation of nuclear states | Cambridge Phonon Systems, Inc. | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 3646 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 93d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2020 |
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Start Free Trial85.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Akc Patents were allowed, across 648 applications in USPTO records.
3.31 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.
