Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cao Group Inc.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§102 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 2 31.7% +40.3%
WEISBERG, AMY REGINA 1 52.5% +26.0%
SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P 1 47.2% +38.0%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18162656 MULTI-AXIS MULTI-ANCHORED IMPLANTS SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P 141d overdue
18731205 MEDICAL IMPLANT WITH DISCONTINUOUS OSSEOINTIGRATIVE SURFACE WEISBERG, AMY REGINA 96d overdue
18342237 CURING LIGHT AND THERAPEUTIC LASER SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 89d overdue
17631491 SYSTEMS COMBINING THERAPEUTIC LASERS AND CURING LIGHTS SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 89d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3796 2
3612 1
3772 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18731205 MEDICAL IMPLANT WITH DISCONTINUOUS OSSEOINTIGRATIVE SURFACE WEISBERG, AMY REGINA 3612 §103 Final Rejection 96d overdue Pending May 31, 2024
18342237 CURING LIGHT AND THERAPEUTIC LASER SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 3796 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2023
18162656 MULTI-AXIS MULTI-ANCHORED IMPLANTS SAUNDERS, MATTHEW P 3772 §102 Final Rejection 141d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
17631491 SYSTEMS COMBINING THERAPEUTIC LASERS AND CURING LIGHTS SISON, CHRISTINE ANDREA PAN 3796 §103 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2022

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