Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
CAO Group Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are distributed across 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating that prosecution is not concentrated in a single examination channel.
HOWARD, RYAN D is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Counsel should review the matters separately by examiner and art unit, while preserving consistency in claim terminology and technical positions across the portfolio.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOWARD, RYAN D | 1 | 79.6% | +12.7% |
| SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 46.9% | +38.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18162656 | MULTI-AXIS MULTI-ANCHORED IMPLANTS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 141d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18162656 | MULTI-AXIS MULTI-ANCHORED IMPLANTS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 141d overdue |
| 18791261 | CURING LIGHT AND THERAPUTIC LASER SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | HOWARD, RYAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2882 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18791261 | CURING LIGHT AND THERAPUTIC LASER SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS | HOWARD, RYAN D | 2882 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18162656 | MULTI-AXIS MULTI-ANCHORED IMPLANTS | SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P | 3772 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 141d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCAO Group Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Ryan D Howard has the most, with 1 of CAO Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
