Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Caavo Inc. operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing a varied technical focus within the mechanical sector. The presence of 2 pending office actions indicates that the company is actively pursuing multiple distinct innovations within the medical device field.
The company's prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners. D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY is the busiest examiner for Caavo Inc., currently managing 1 pending office action. The presence of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for 2 pending office actions indicates that each of the company's current applications is being reviewed in a separate specialized area of the patent office. This ensures that each matter is evaluated by an examiner with specific expertise in the relevant art unit.
For practitioners, this distribution across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific expectations of each individual examiner. There is no central examiner handling multiple matters, which may lead to independent outcomes for each application. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering remains the unifying theme across these diverse prosecution paths, with D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY handling one of the matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY | 1 | 73.1% | +13.9% |
| FLYNN, RANDY A | 1 | 65.4% | +16.3% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18438157 | INFRARED COVERAGE, SELECTION, AND CALIBRATION IN A MEDIA SYSTEM | FLYNN, RANDY A | 40d |
| 18768793 | REMOTE CONTROL OF A MOBILE DEVICE | D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2424 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18768793 | REMOTE CONTROL OF A MOBILE DEVICE | D'AGOSTINO, PAUL ANTHONY | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18438157 | INFRARED COVERAGE, SELECTION, AND CALIBRATION IN A MEDIA SYSTEM | FLYNN, RANDY A | 2424 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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