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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cascade Maverik Lacrosse LLC is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. The alignment of all pending work within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area suggests a streamlined approach to its mechanical and medical device innovations. Because the company operates within 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is likely tailored to the specific examination standards of that group.
The portfolio's pending workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L. As the busiest examiner for the company, NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution means that the company's current office action responses are directed to this individual. Practitioners should monitor the specific preferences of this examiner, as their feedback currently dictates the trajectory of the entire pending portfolio. The presence of 1 distinct examiner simplifies the management of deadlines and examiner interviews for the current portfolio state.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 1 | 66.7% | +24.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19031050 | PROTECTIVE HEADGEAR | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031050 | PROTECTIVE HEADGEAR | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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