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
Changzhou Beifei Non-Woven Fabric Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution activity. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the standards of a single art unit and the preferences of one examiner.
CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This examiner is the sole individual currently processing the company's pending action. The use of 1 distinct art unit for this action suggests the technology is classified within a single specialized group at the patent office. This structure allows for a highly focused dialogue between the practitioner and the examiner, as there are no other pending matters or examiners to coordinate with at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 1 | 46.0% | +38.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424612 | MEDICAL BANDAGE | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18424612 | MEDICAL BANDAGE | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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