Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 7 clients • 9 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
KERR IP GROUP, LLC practices in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering and has 12 pending office actions from 441 career applications. The application record supplies context for the current pending workload.
The resolved allowance rate is 91.18%, while the average is 4.14 office actions per allowance. These figures pair a resolved-outcome measure with an indication that allowances are associated with several office-action exchanges.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (27%) |
| §103 only | 1 (9%) |
| §102 only | 2 (18%) |
| §112 only | 2 (18%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (18%) |
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, KEVIN Y | 2 | 78.3% | +15.9% |
| SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 2 | 89.8% | +7.8% |
| WILLIAMS, DON J | 1 | 84.0% | +5.1% |
| CHANG, KENNETH W | 1 | 86.6% | +1.3% |
| TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V | 1 | 55.5% | +46.4% |
| BODENDORF, ANDREW | 1 | 29.6% | +36.2% |
| GARNER, WERNER G | 1 | 60.1% | +24.2% |
| ROSSI, VY BUI | 1 | 29.5% | +36.4% |
| SHAH, NILAY J | 1 | 76.3% | +46.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797330 | GENERATING A MISSION PLAN WITH A ROW-BASED WORLD MODEL | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 147d overdue |
| 18797321 | ROW-BASED WORLD MODEL FOR PERCEPTIVE NAVIGATION | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 147d overdue |
| 19198115 | PORTABLE REMOTE SENSING DEVICE AND SYSTEM | WILLIAMS, DON J | — |
| 19066073 | NETWORK BASED HYPERLOCAL AUTHENTICATION | CHANG, KENNETH W | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19059219 | MICROSPHERE PRODUCTION METHOD | TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V | — |
| 18765249 | WATERMARKED ELECTRONIC PULL-TAB GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIM, KEVIN Y | — |
| 18764704 | EMBEDDED FEATURE ELECTRONIC PULL-TAB SYSTEM AND METHOD | BODENDORF, ANDREW | — |
| 18764915 | PLACEHOLDER FEATURE ELECTRONIC PULL-TAB SYSTEM AND METHOD | GARNER, WERNER G | — |
| 18265611 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUDIOMETRIC EARLY DETECTION, PREDICTION AND AGGREGATE TREND ANALYSIS OF NOISE-INDUCED AND OTHER PROGRESSIVE HEARING LOSS | ROSSI, VY BUI | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19059219 | MICROSPHERE PRODUCTION METHOD | TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V | — |
| 18970879 | MOBILE PROMOTIONAL BINGO GAME FOR PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICES | KIM, KEVIN Y | — |
| 18765249 | WATERMARKED ELECTRONIC PULL-TAB GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIM, KEVIN Y | — |
| 18764704 | EMBEDDED FEATURE ELECTRONIC PULL-TAB SYSTEM AND METHOD | BODENDORF, ANDREW | — |
| 18764915 | PLACEHOLDER FEATURE ELECTRONIC PULL-TAB SYSTEM AND METHOD | GARNER, WERNER G | — |
| 18265611 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUDIOMETRIC EARLY DETECTION, PREDICTION AND AGGREGATE TREND ANALYSIS OF NOISE-INDUCED AND OTHER PROGRESSIVE HEARING LOSS | ROSSI, VY BUI | — |
| 17588147 | MINIMALLY TRAUMATIC TROCAR APPARATUS AND KIT FOR SUBCUTANEOUS MEDICATION DELIVERY | SHAH, NILAY J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Pilot Gaming Systems, Inc. | 3 |
| VITALTE LIFESCIENCES INC. | 2 |
| FARMX Inc. | 2 |
| Sensera Systems, Inc. | 1 |
| Loyalty Iot, Inc. | 1 |
| Pilot Games, Inc. | 1 |
| Verdi Technology, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 4 |
| 3661 | 2 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 2438 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198115 | PORTABLE REMOTE SENSING DEVICE AND SYSTEM | Sensera Systems, Inc. | WILLIAMS, DON J | 2878 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 04, 2025 |
| 19066073 | NETWORK BASED HYPERLOCAL AUTHENTICATION | Loyalty Iot, Inc. | CHANG, KENNETH W | 2438 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19059219 | MICROSPHERE PRODUCTION METHOD | VITALTE LIFESCIENCES INC. | TCHERKASSKAYA, OLGA V | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18970879 | MOBILE PROMOTIONAL BINGO GAME FOR PERSONAL MOBILE DEVICES | Pilot Games, Inc. | KIM, KEVIN Y | 3715 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18797330 | GENERATING A MISSION PLAN WITH A ROW-BASED WORLD MODEL | Farmx Inc. | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 3661 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18797321 | ROW-BASED WORLD MODEL FOR PERCEPTIVE NAVIGATION | Farmx Inc. | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 3661 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18765249 | WATERMARKED ELECTRONIC PULL-TAB GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD | Pilot Gaming Systems, Inc. | KIM, KEVIN Y | 3715 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2024 |
| 18764704 | EMBEDDED FEATURE ELECTRONIC PULL-TAB SYSTEM AND METHOD | Pilot Gaming Systems, Inc. | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 3715 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18764915 | PLACEHOLDER FEATURE ELECTRONIC PULL-TAB SYSTEM AND METHOD | Pilot Gaming Systems, Inc. | GARNER, WERNER G | 3715 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18265611 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUDIOMETRIC EARLY DETECTION, PREDICTION AND AGGREGATE TREND ANALYSIS OF NOISE-INDUCED AND OTHER PROGRESSIVE HEARING LOSS | Verdi Technology, Inc. | ROSSI, VY BUI | 3791 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 17588147 | MINIMALLY TRAUMATIC TROCAR APPARATUS AND KIT FOR SUBCUTANEOUS MEDICATION DELIVERY | VITALTE LIFESCIENCES INC. | SHAH, NILAY J | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial91.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Kerr Ip Group, LLC were allowed, across 441 applications in USPTO records.
4.14 office actions per allowed application on average.
11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 7 clients, before 9 examiners in 7 art units.
