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
Paga LLC maintains a presence in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action currently on record. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The concentration of the portfolio's active prosecution into a single matter suggests a very specific focus for the company's current patenting efforts.
The busiest examiner for Paga LLC is CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN. As there is only a pending office action in the entire portfolio, this examiner is responsible for all current examiner-level interactions. This alignment across a distinct art unit and a single examiner ensures that the company's immediate prosecution strategy is contained within a single specialized channel of the patent office. Practitioners should prepare for a focused negotiation where the outcome of this individual case significantly impacts the company's intellectual property position in the medical devices sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 1 | 46.0% | +38.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740668 | DRESSING OF TONGUE AND LIP TIES AFTER SURGICAL RELEASE AND CREATION OF ADDITIONAL ATTACHED (KERATINIZED) GINGIVAL TISSUE AROUND TEETH | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740668 | DRESSING OF TONGUE AND LIP TIES AFTER SURGICAL RELEASE AND CREATION OF ADDITIONAL ATTACHED (KERATINIZED) GINGIVAL TISSUE AROUND TEETH | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
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