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
Figiura Intimates Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The current prosecution footprint is limited to this single active matter.
FERREIRA, CATHERINE M is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's active workload. With the distinct examiner and art unit, the company's current efforts in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are focused on a single point of review.
The concentration of the 1 pending office action under FERREIRA, CATHERINE M allows for a direct interaction with the patent office. Since the matter is situated in the 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution follows the specific procedural standards of that group. This focused approach defines the company's current status within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 1 | 39.4% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917519 | BRASSIERE ERGONOMICALLY CONFIGURED TO BETTER SUPPORT IMPLANT-BASED AUGMENTED BREASTS | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917519 | BRASSIERE ERGONOMICALLY CONFIGURED TO BETTER SUPPORT IMPLANT-BASED AUGMENTED BREASTS | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
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