Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
D-Air Lab S R L has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. Despite having multiple examiners, the workload is contained within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting the technology falls under a specific classification. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows the company to focus its efforts on the standards of a single examination group.
HADEN, SALLY CLINE is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action is part of the 2 pending office actions. The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners within the art unit means the company receives feedback from multiple perspectives within the same group. Each examiner is handling a portion of the pending actions, requiring the company to manage separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 1 | 32.0% | +41.6% |
| FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 1 | 39.4% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253173 | PROTECTION DEVICE FOR THE NECK, PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME, GARMENT COMPRISING SAID PROTECTION DEVICE | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 29d |
| 19186347 | PROTECTION DEVICE AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253173 | PROTECTION DEVICE FOR THE NECK, PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME, GARMENT COMPRISING SAID PROTECTION DEVICE | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 29d |
| 19186347 | PROTECTION DEVICE AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19253173 | PROTECTION DEVICE FOR THE NECK, PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME, GARMENT COMPRISING SAID PROTECTION DEVICE | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19186347 | PROTECTION DEVICE AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
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