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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yum Connect LLC maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are 2 pending office actions currently active. These 2 actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners.
The portfolio's activity is split across 2 distinct art units. This means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed in a different art unit by a different examiner. The busiest examiner, CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For this portfolio, the 2 pending office actions face entirely separate prosecution environments. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, there is no overlap in the current pending workload. This requires the practitioner to manage 2 distinct sets of examiner expectations and art unit standards for the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 1 | 65.1% | +35.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949848 | FRY PORTIONING BASKET | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 46d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949848 | FRY PORTIONING BASKET | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18949848 | FRY PORTIONING BASKET | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
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