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
Catenation Enterprises LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This shows that the current pending intellectual property efforts are focused within a single specialized group.
The busiest examiner for the company is RASSAVONG, ERIC, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action accounts for the entirety of the company's pending matters. Since RASSAVONG, ERIC is the only examiner listed, the prosecution of the current pending application is entirely under this individual's review.
Practitioners can benefit from the concentration of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner. This allows for a direct communication channel with RASSAVONG, ERIC. By focusing on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved, the company can develop a targeted strategy to resolve the 1 pending action and advance its position in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RASSAVONG, ERIC | 1 | 71.6% | +34.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18097361 | OSTOMY POUCH EMPTYING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18097361 | OSTOMY POUCH EMPTYING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18097361 | OSTOMY POUCH EMPTYING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE | RASSAVONG, ERIC | 3781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jan 16, 2023 |
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