Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Powell Mansfield Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This indicates that the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners.
The 2 pending office actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, but both are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated technical focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, sharing the current workload equally with one other examiner.
The 2 distinct examiners provide examiner variety for the 2 pending office actions. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit is the primary location for both active matters. This structure indicates that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are concentrated in a single technical classification despite the involvement of 2 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | 1 | 56.5% | +48.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990707 | METHODS TO IDENTIFY A PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA IN PATIENTS | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990707 | METHODS TO IDENTIFY A PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA IN PATIENTS | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18990707 | METHODS TO IDENTIFY A PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA IN PATIENTS | PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
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