Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cricut Inc. currently has 6 pending office actions within its company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 6 distinct examiners, resulting in a one-to-one ratio where each examiner handles a single matter. The prosecution is focused within 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the pending applications are grouped into a few specific technical categories.
BANH, DAVID H is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action represents a portion of the total 6 pending office actions for the company. Because the workload is evenly distributed among the 6 distinct examiners, the portfolio's progress is not overly dependent on any one individual's examination style.
For practitioners, the concentration within 3 distinct art units provides some opportunity for consistent technical arguments across the 6 pending office actions. However, the involvement of 6 distinct examiners still requires a case-by-case approach to address different individual preferences. The overall success of the portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area will be determined by the collective outcomes of these 6 independent prosecution efforts across the 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANH, DAVID H | 1 | 71.7% | +12.5% |
| POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 1 | 21.4% | +30.7% |
| WU, YANNA | 1 | 80.9% | +34.4% |
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 76.9% | +27.3% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 1 | 69.0% | +15.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977421 | Method for Providing Digital Content | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | — |
| 18848236 | Crafting Pad | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 17757086 | Matless Cutting Machine and Methods | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19248883 | Heat Press | BANH, DAVID H | — |
| 18977421 | Method for Providing Digital Content | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | — |
| 18960880 | System and Method for Providing Digital Content | WU, YANNA | — |
| 18848236 | Crafting Pad | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 18260169 | Crafting Apparatus Support Member | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
| 17757086 | Matless Cutting Machine and Methods | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19248883 | Heat Press | BANH, DAVID H | 3725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 18977421 | Method for Providing Digital Content | POUNCIL, DARNELL A | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18960880 | System and Method for Providing Digital Content | WU, YANNA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18848236 | Crafting Pad | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18260169 | Crafting Apparatus Support Member | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 17757086 | Matless Cutting Machine and Methods | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2022 |
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