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
Briggs And Riley Travelware LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED. The action is located in a distinct art unit. CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The company's current patent activity is focused on a single pending matter.
The focus on a distinct art unit within the medical device sector suggests a highly specialized application. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination style of CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED, as this examiner holds the entirety of the company's active workload. With only a single pending office action, the prosecution strategy is streamlined and does not require coordination across multiple patent office divisions. This singular focus allows for a deep dive into the specific technical requirements of the assigned art unit. The current data shows no other active matters or examiners involved in the company's portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED | 1 | 56.3% | +30.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18904773 | STABILIZED LUGGAGE | CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18904773 | STABILIZED LUGGAGE | CAUDILL, JUSTIN REED | 3733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
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