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
3Dcalz LLC maintains a highly concentrated patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current prosecution landscape for the company is defined by 1 pending office action, indicating a very specific window of active engagement with the USPTO. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which suggests a streamlined interaction process between the company and the patent office. Practitioners can focus their resources on a specific set of examiner-specific preferences rather than managing diverse examination styles.
The entirety of the company's active prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration ensures that the technical evaluation of their intellectual property remains within a specific expertise group at the patent office. FERREIRA, CATHERINE M is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. For a patent practitioner, this data indicates that the company's immediate legal strategy is focused on 1 point of contact. Successfully navigating this individual's requirements is the primary path to advancing the company's intellectual property goals in this technical 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 1 | 39.4% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656878 | PADS WITH THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE ELEMENT | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 97d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656878 | PADS WITH THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE ELEMENT | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 97d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18656878 | PADS WITH THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE ELEMENT | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 97d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
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