Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cavagna Group S P A currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both actions are housed within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the company's mechanical innovations are being evaluated by a single specialized department. However, the portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners, providing different perspectives within that same unit. This structure allows the company to test its claims against different reviewers while remaining within the same technical framework.
JESSICA MARIE CAHILL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. This accounts for a portion of the company's active prosecution. The presence of pending actions across the examiners means that each examiner is responsible for a matter, distributing the company's patent outcomes across multiple reviewers. By interacting with the distinct examiners, Cavagna Group S P A gains broader insight into how the 1 distinct art unit interprets its technology. This approach mitigates the risk of a single examiner's perspective determining the fate of the entire pending portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 1 | 78.5% | +22.8% |
| ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN | 1 | 81.1% | +20.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838540 | A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RESIDUAL SUPPLY TIME FOR A GAS | ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18847139 | A SHUT-OFF VALVE FOR A FLUID | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 124d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18847139 | A SHUT-OFF VALVE FOR A FLUID | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 124d overdue |
| 18838540 | A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RESIDUAL SUPPLY TIME FOR A GAS | ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18847139 | A SHUT-OFF VALVE FOR A FLUID | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 124d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18838540 | A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RESIDUAL SUPPLY TIME FOR A GAS | ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
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