Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Castle Island Ip Holding LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, showing that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution provides a variety of examiner perspectives on the company's current filings.
All 3 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner is BOYD, JONATHAN A, who is responsible for 1 of the pending actions currently active. This setup indicates that while the 3 pending actions are technically related within 1 distinct art unit, the company must manage three different examiner relationships. The 1 pending office action assigned to BOYD, JONATHAN A is the only one for that examiner.
For a practitioner, the concentration of 3 pending office actions within a single art unit suggests a consistent technical standard will be applied. However, the involvement of 3 distinct examiners means that the specific prosecution style may vary between each of the 3 pending actions. The strategy must account for the individual preferences of each examiner while operating within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYD, JONATHAN A | 1 | 69.1% | +7.2% |
| CHAN, ALLEN | 1 | 70.3% | +35.1% |
| MCCLELLAN, JAMES S | 1 | 78.9% | +13.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18638294 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING A SECONDARY GAME BASED ON AN UNDERLYING, HISTORICAL-EVENT BASED PRIMARY GAME | MCCLELLAN, JAMES S | 5d |
| 19068536 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING WAGERING | BOYD, JONATHAN A | — |
| 18761005 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING WAGERING | CHAN, ALLEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18638294 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING A SECONDARY GAME BASED ON AN UNDERLYING, HISTORICAL-EVENT BASED PRIMARY GAME | MCCLELLAN, JAMES S | 5d |
| 18761005 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING WAGERING | CHAN, ALLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068536 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING WAGERING | BOYD, JONATHAN A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18761005 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING WAGERING | CHAN, ALLEN | 3715 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18638294 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING A SECONDARY GAME BASED ON AN UNDERLYING, HISTORICAL-EVENT BASED PRIMARY GAME | MCCLELLAN, JAMES S | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
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