Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cold Chain Technologies LLC currently has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical classifications for a small number of applications. The workload is handled by 3 distinct examiners, with each examiner responsible for 1 pending matter.
CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, no single examiner has more than 1 case. The fact that each of the 3 pending office actions is in a different art unit means the company must adapt to the specific standards of 3 distinct art units. This high ratio of art units to pending actions suggests that the company's current prosecution efforts are technically fragmented across the medical and mechanical engineering sectors.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 1 | 65.1% | +35.7% |
| NELSON, FREDA ANN | 1 | 42.8% | +7.7% |
| ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 1 | 63.5% | +24.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210242 | METHOD FOR STORING AND/OR TRANSPORTING TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE MATERIALS AND SYSTEM FOR USE THEREIN | NELSON, FREDA ANN | 42d |
| 19222039 | SHIPPING SYSTEM FOR STORING AND/OR TRANSPORTING TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE MATERIALS | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19222039 | SHIPPING SYSTEM FOR STORING AND/OR TRANSPORTING TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE MATERIALS | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | — |
| 18628646 | SYSTEM SUITABLE FOR STORING AND/OR TRANSPORTING TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE MATERIALS | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19222039 | SHIPPING SYSTEM FOR STORING AND/OR TRANSPORTING TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE MATERIALS | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19210242 | METHOD FOR STORING AND/OR TRANSPORTING TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE MATERIALS AND SYSTEM FOR USE THEREIN | NELSON, FREDA ANN | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 18628646 | SYSTEM SUITABLE FOR STORING AND/OR TRANSPORTING TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE MATERIALS | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 3736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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