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
Better Made Hemp LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, showing a singular focus for the company's current patent applications. The concentration in the art unit implies that the technical scope of the pending matter is well-defined within the medical and mechanical fields.
ANDERSON, CATHARINE L is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling the pending office action. With only the examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is highly specific to the individual's interpretation of the art unit's standards. This concentration allows for a targeted approach to resolving the pending matter currently on record. By focusing on the examiner's historical data, the applicant can better anticipate potential rejections and tailor their arguments to the specific expectations of the art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 1 | 65.3% | +20.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18318153 | HEMP-BASED ABSORBENT ARTICLE | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18318153 | HEMP-BASED ABSORBENT ARTICLE | ANDERSON, CATHARINE L | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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