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
Colic Button AS has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent activity is focused on this single point of review, indicating a targeted approach to its medical device innovations. With only 1 pending office action, the company can provide a detailed and specific response to the technical issues raised by the patent office.
CASLER, BRIAN L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. As this is the only pending action total, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's current prosecution needs. Success depends on addressing the specific concerns of this individual examiner within the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should carefully review the examiner's feedback to ensure that the response for this 1 pending office action is both technically sound and procedurally correct.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASLER, BRIAN L | 1 | 78.8% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261257 | AN AUDIO DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLEVIATING SYMPTOMS OF COLIC IN INFANTS | CASLER, BRIAN L | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18261257 | AN AUDIO DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLEVIATING SYMPTOMS OF COLIC IN INFANTS | CASLER, BRIAN L | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18261257 | AN AUDIO DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLEVIATING SYMPTOMS OF COLIC IN INFANTS | CASLER, BRIAN L | 3791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
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