Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Curaden AG has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating separate examination assignments across the listed portfolio.
LAVERTY, CAITLIN ANN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data does not show repeated examiner or art-unit assignments. Practitioners should therefore manage each response independently while maintaining consistent technical terminology across the matters.
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 (33%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAVERTY, CAITLIN ANN | 1 | 97.2% | +1.6% |
| AVILES BOSQUES, ORLANDO E | 1 | 44.7% | +53.9% |
| ROSEN, ERIC J | 1 | 41.3% | +22.8% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35525904 | Case for brushes | LAVERTY, CAITLIN ANN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861659 | Toothbrush | AVILES BOSQUES, ORLANDO E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566331 | INTERDENTAL BRUSH HAVING AN OVAL WIRE CROSS SECTION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | ROSEN, ERIC J | 37d overdue |
| 18861659 | Toothbrush | AVILES BOSQUES, ORLANDO E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2951 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35525904 | Case for brushes | LAVERTY, CAITLIN ANN | 2951 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 18861659 | Toothbrush | AVILES BOSQUES, ORLANDO E | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18566331 | INTERDENTAL BRUSH HAVING AN OVAL WIRE CROSS SECTION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | ROSEN, ERIC J | 3772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCuraden AG has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Caitlin Ann Laverty has the most, with 1 of Curaden AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
