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
Cap Creations LLC manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to the distinct examiner, FERREIRA, CATHERINE M, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is further concentrated as it is limited to the distinct art unit.
The presence of only 1 pending office action across the distinct examiner and art unit reflects a very streamlined prosecution profile. In the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, the company's current USPTO activity is entirely dependent on the review by FERREIRA, CATHERINE M. This lack of distribution across multiple examiners or art units means that the company does not have to manage competing examiner styles or different art unit cultures. However, it also means that the 1 pending office action carries the full weight of the company's current prosecution efforts. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of the distinct examiner involved, as this relationship defines the current state of the Cap Creations LLC portfolio at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 1 | 39.4% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19034190 | HAT AND CAP MODIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19034190 | HAT AND CAP MODIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19034190 | HAT AND CAP MODIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
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