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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lactalogics Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The portfolio's current prosecution is focused within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration means that the immediate success of the company's medical device patent applications depends on the specific examination standards of this unit and the assigned examiner.
Because the 1 pending office action is concentrated under CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER, the practitioner should focus on the specific historical allowance rates and procedural preferences of this individual. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's medical device technology is being evaluated under a single set of specialized guidelines. Success in the 1 pending action will require a strategy tailored to the specific requirements of the examiner and the art unit involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 1 | 62.2% | +28.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18600629 | ENTERAL FEEDING SYSTEM | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 58d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18600629 | ENTERAL FEEDING SYSTEM | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 58d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18600629 | ENTERAL FEEDING SYSTEM | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 3733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
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