Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
HBI Branded Apparel Enterprises LLC currently manages 3 pending office actions. These actions are categorized under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio involves 3 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit, showing distribution of work among personnel while maintaining a unified administrative focus.
NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER is the busiest examiner for this company. This individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 3 pending office actions in total, the workload is distributed among the 3 distinct examiners involved.
The use of 1 distinct art unit for the pending matters suggests that the company's innovations in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are being evaluated within the same regulatory group. For a practitioner, this means that while different examiners are assigned, the underlying art unit policies will likely be consistent. NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER represents a point of contact for the current pending cases.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 1 | 43.2% | +42.4% |
| FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 1 | 39.4% | +33.3% |
| MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | 1 | 47.4% | +68.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18315743 | CONCEALER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | 15d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19182781 | MOISTURE MANAGEMENT UPPER TORSO GARMENTS | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 7d |
| 18315743 | CONCEALER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | 15d |
| 18981892 | TAILORED LIFT BRA CUP SYSTEM AND METHOD | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19182781 | MOISTURE MANAGEMENT UPPER TORSO GARMENTS | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 18981892 | TAILORED LIFT BRA CUP SYSTEM AND METHOD | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18315743 | CONCEALER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MARCHEWKA, MATTHEW R | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
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