Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coulter Ventures LLC has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing some technical variety within the medical and mechanical sectors. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 5 pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution across 5 distinct examiners requires the company to manage five separate examiner relationships.
The busiest examiner is LETTERMAN, CATRINA A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 5 distinct examiners for 5 actions, the workload is completely decentralized. The company must manage 5 separate examiner relationships across 2 distinct art units, requiring attention to the specific preferences of each examiner involved. Practitioners should note that each of the 5 pending office actions is being handled by a unique examiner, which may lead to different prosecution outcomes across the 2 distinct art units.
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 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | 1 | 66.9% | +30.8% |
| KOBYLARZ, ANDREW M | 1 | 76.5% | +20.1% |
| BODDIE, WILLIAM | 1 | 27.2% | +23.3% |
| FISK, KATHLEEN M | 1 | 63.2% | +44.7% |
| NGUYEN, NYCA T | 1 | 67.5% | +24.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19281204 | RESISTANCE DEVICE FOR EXERCISE MACHINE | LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | — |
| 18776671 | Exercise Bike | BODDIE, WILLIAM | — |
| 17837190 | Barbell | FISK, KATHLEEN M | — |
| 17374473 | Weight Plate Carrier Vest | NGUYEN, NYCA T | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19281204 | RESISTANCE DEVICE FOR EXERCISE MACHINE | LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | — |
| 19192468 | Cable Connection Assembly | KOBYLARZ, ANDREW M | — |
| 18776671 | Exercise Bike | BODDIE, WILLIAM | — |
| 17837190 | Barbell | FISK, KATHLEEN M | — |
| 17374473 | Weight Plate Carrier Vest | NGUYEN, NYCA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3784 | 3 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19281204 | RESISTANCE DEVICE FOR EXERCISE MACHINE | LETTERMAN, CATRINA A | 3784 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19192468 | Cable Connection Assembly | KOBYLARZ, ANDREW M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 18776671 | Exercise Bike | BODDIE, WILLIAM | 2625 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 17837190 | Barbell | FISK, KATHLEEN M | 3784 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
| 17374473 | Weight Plate Carrier Vest | NGUYEN, NYCA T | 3784 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2021 |
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