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
Degrees Of Freedom LLC is currently managing a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio features 1 pending office action, which is being reviewed in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused intellectual property strategy with a narrow technical scope for the company's current filings.
The prosecution is being overseen by 1 distinct examiner, CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This means that the entirety of the company's current active patent matters is under the review of this single individual within the 1 distinct art unit.
For a practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action creates a highly concentrated prosecution environment. Success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field for Degrees Of Freedom LLC will depend on addressing the specific concerns of CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J. There are no other examiners currently involved to provide alternative perspectives on the portfolio's technical claims.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 1 | 65.1% | +35.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794654 | KINETIC CARRIER DEVICE | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794654 | KINETIC CARRIER DEVICE | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18794654 | KINETIC CARRIER DEVICE | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
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