Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cb&I Sts Delaware LLC manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data identifies 2 pending office actions currently in progress. This volume suggests a targeted level of active prosecution for the company's mechanical engineering innovations.
The prosecution effort is spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This ratio between actions, examiners, and art units indicates that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled in a different technical division of the patent office. Such a distribution suggests that the company's technology is multidisciplinary and touches on two separate specialized areas within medical devices and engineering.
ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since each of the 2 pending office actions is assigned to a different person among the 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed. Practitioners must therefore tailor their strategies to the specific standards of 2 distinct art units to successfully resolve these pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 1 | 61.2% | +35.2% |
| CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 1 | 65.1% | +35.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912126 | SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DOUBLE-WALL LIQUID HYDROGEN STORAGE VESSEL | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 2d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18817935 | NON-VACUUM CARGO CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 78d overdue |
| 18912126 | SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DOUBLE-WALL LIQUID HYDROGEN STORAGE VESSEL | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18912126 | SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DOUBLE-WALL LIQUID HYDROGEN STORAGE VESSEL | ORTIZ, RAFAEL ALFREDO | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18817935 | NON-VACUUM CARGO CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
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