Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spanx LLC has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the portfolio is technically concentrated while examiner assignments are distributed.
FERREIRA, CATHERINE M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for a repeated concentration, so the principal common feature is the shared art-unit setting rather than a dominant examiner relationship.
The single art-unit assignment supports coordinated review of technical classification and recurring claim issues. Counsel should still tailor responses to each examiner, because identical technical placement does not establish identical examination treatment.
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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 1 | 39.5% | +33.1% |
| HALE, GLORIA M | 1 | 73.0% | +19.3% |
| HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 1 | 32.1% | +41.5% |
| BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | 1 | 50.3% | +44.7% |
| QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1 | 51.4% | +30.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603513 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS SPACE | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1d overdue |
| 19036422 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | — |
| 18773971 | UPPER BODY GARMENT | BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603513 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS SPACE | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1d overdue |
| 19347336 | TARGETED BONDED APPAREL | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | — |
| 19196244 | FOLDOVER LOWER ABDOMINAL SHAPING GARMENT | HALE, GLORIA M | — |
| 19036422 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | — |
| 18773971 | UPPER BODY GARMENT | BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19347336 | TARGETED BONDED APPAREL | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 19196244 | FOLDOVER LOWER ABDOMINAL SHAPING GARMENT | HALE, GLORIA M | 3732 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19036422 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18773971 | UPPER BODY GARMENT | BRAVO, JOCELYN MARY | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18603513 | GARMENT WITH REAR ACCESS SPACE | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSpanx LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 5 examiners.
Catherine M Ferreira has the most, with 1 of Spanx LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
