Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Supercrease Limited is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, creating a specific point of contact for current prosecution. This arrangement can lead to high consistency in how the company's claims are interpreted across its active filings. The lack of diversity in examiners means that the company can focus its efforts on the specific procedural expectations of a very small group of officials.
HURLEY, SHAUN R is the busiest examiner, responsible for 2 pending office actions. This examiner is handling all active matters for the company, as the total number of actions matches the count assigned to this individual. This concentration of responsibility makes the examiner's specific history and preferences the primary factor in the company's immediate prosecution outcomes. Practitioners should prioritize building a persuasive dialogue with this examiner to resolve the 2 pending office actions successfully.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HURLEY, SHAUN R | 2 | 77.5% | +17.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19294861 | Resin for use in Setting a Crease in a Garment, a Method and Apparatus for Applying the Same and a Garment Including the Resin | HURLEY, SHAUN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19294861 | Resin for use in Setting a Crease in a Garment, a Method and Apparatus for Applying the Same and a Garment Including the Resin | HURLEY, SHAUN R | — |
| 19294690 | Resin for use in Setting a Crease in a Garment | HURLEY, SHAUN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19294861 | Resin for use in Setting a Crease in a Garment, a Method and Apparatus for Applying the Same and a Garment Including the Resin | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 3732 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 19294690 | Resin for use in Setting a Crease in a Garment | HURLEY, SHAUN R | 3732 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
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