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 • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gavrieli Brands LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution effort. The focus of the portfolio suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific technical advancement rather than a broad array of filings. Practitioners should observe that this concentration leaves no room for alternative prosecution paths within the current active workload.
WEAVER, SUE A is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because this individual handles the entirety of the company's active cases, the prosecution outcome is entirely dependent on a reviewer's interpretation of the claims. This lack of examiner diversity requires a strategy that is highly sensitive to the specific tendencies and historical preferences of the assigned official. There are no other pending matters to provide a baseline for comparison across different art units.
The presence of a distinct art unit further emphasizes the narrow technical focus of the current portfolio. For a practitioner, this means that all current efforts are subject to the specific examination standards of a departmental group. Success in this matter will require a deep understanding of the examiner's previous actions and the specific requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering section. The current data shows no distribution that would allow for a more diversified intellectual property approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEAVER, SUE A | 1 | 62.0% | +28.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19253243 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CARRYING FOOTWEAR | WEAVER, SUE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19253243 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CARRYING FOOTWEAR | WEAVER, SUE A | 3733 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialGavrieli Brands LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sue A Weaver has the most, with 1 of Gavrieli Brands LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.