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
Carre Technologies Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, showing a concentrated prosecution effort for the company's current filings. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the pending application is focused on a specific technical niche within the broader engineering category, which can simplify the search for relevant prior art and the formulation of technical arguments.
Andrey Shostak is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action represents the company's total pending workload at the USPTO. Consequently, the company's immediate prosecution strategy involves addressing the specific requirements and communications from this examiner to advance its intellectual property goals. Practitioners should leverage the focused nature of this interaction to build a persuasive case for allowance, taking into account the examiner's specific history and the art unit's typical practices.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 1 | 52.2% | +61.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18303482 | Wearable Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography Device And Method For Respiratory Activity Analysis | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18303482 | Wearable Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography Device And Method For Respiratory Activity Analysis | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18303482 | Wearable Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography Device And Method For Respiratory Activity Analysis | SHOSTAK, ANDREY | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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