Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Neuro Spinal Innovation Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These cases are spread across 2 distinct art units and involve 2 distinct examiners. CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action.
This indicates that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner in a different unit. Practitioners should note that the lack of concentration in both examiners and art units means that prosecution strategies must be individualized for each case. The busiest examiner, CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN, is responsible for 1 of the 2 pending office actions. This decentralized structure in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector requires the applicant to address 2 distinct sets of examiner expectations and art unit standards simultaneously.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 1 | 46.0% | +38.4% |
| WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 1 | 47.1% | +34.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18160260 | PORTABLE SOLENOID ACTUATED IMPULSE TREATMENT DEVICE AND USE THEREOF | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 30d overdue |
| 18923263 | HEADREST FOR POSITIONING A PERSON'S HEAD IN PREPARATION FOR A TREATMENT AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18160260 | PORTABLE SOLENOID ACTUATED IMPULSE TREATMENT DEVICE AND USE THEREOF | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 30d overdue |
| 18923263 | HEADREST FOR POSITIONING A PERSON'S HEAD IN PREPARATION FOR A TREATMENT AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18923263 | HEADREST FOR POSITIONING A PERSON'S HEAD IN PREPARATION FOR A TREATMENT AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 3786 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18160260 | PORTABLE SOLENOID ACTUATED IMPULSE TREATMENT DEVICE AND USE THEREOF | WOLFF, ARIELLE R | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
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