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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cfa Properties Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Both examiners are working within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the prosecution of these matters within a single specialized group. For a practitioner, this concentration suggests that the company's mechanical technologies are being evaluated under a consistent set of unit-specific guidelines and internal oversight.
AHUJA, ANURADHA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions total, the workload is split between the distinct examiners. The concentration of examiners in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's innovations are being reviewed in a focused regulatory environment. This requires a prosecution strategy that addresses the specific requirements of the art unit while managing the individual approaches of the assigned examiners to achieve favorable results across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHUJA, ANURADHA | 1 | 72.6% | +56.1% |
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.6% | +38.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18423887 | AUTOMATED CONDIMENT DISPENSER | AHUJA, ANURADHA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18423887 | AUTOMATED CONDIMENT DISPENSER | AHUJA, ANURADHA | — |
| 18364801 | BREADING STATION | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18423887 | AUTOMATED CONDIMENT DISPENSER | AHUJA, ANURADHA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18364801 | BREADING STATION | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 3761 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
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