Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pratt Retail Specialties LLC has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that multiple examiners are working within the same art units for this portfolio. The concentration in 2 distinct art units suggests that the 4 pending office actions involve technology that is closely related within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R is the busiest examiner for this company. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The total of 4 pending office actions is evenly distributed among the 4 distinct examiners. No single examiner handles more than 1 of the active matters. This distribution requires the company to navigate 4 different examiner personalities while working within 2 distinct art unit cultures. This prosecution environment may require a varied approach to advocacy across the different examiners assigned to the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.1% |
| ATTEL, NINA KAY | 1 | 41.4% | +27.8% |
| FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 1 | 61.9% | +43.4% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.2% |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17173293 | INSULATED BOX | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 28d |
| 18115791 | INSULATED BAG WITH HANDLES | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 29d |
| 18747098 | INSULATED CONTAINER | ATTEL, NINA KAY | 55d |
| 19446284 | HINGED WRAP INSULATED CONTAINER | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 2 |
| 3731 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19446284 | HINGED WRAP INSULATED CONTAINER | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2026 |
| 18747098 | INSULATED CONTAINER | ATTEL, NINA KAY | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18115791 | INSULATED BAG WITH HANDLES | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 17173293 | INSULATED BOX | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Feb 11, 2021 |
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