Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Caseiro Burke LLC has handled 340 career applications in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The firm currently manages 2 pending office actions. Its resolved allowance rate is 77.19 percent, reflecting the proportion of cases that successfully reach allowance. The firm averages 2.93 office actions per allowance, which provides a measure of the typical prosecution effort required.
The 2.93 average office actions per allowance, paired with the 77.19 percent allowance rate, demonstrates the firm's consistent performance across 340 career applications. The 2 pending office actions indicate the firm's current active workload in this sector. These metrics allow practitioners to evaluate the firm's efficiency and its historical success rate in obtaining patents.
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) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINTZ, RODNEY K | 1 | 79.0% | +10.7% |
| VERA, ELISA H | 1 | 72.2% | +26.5% |
| PATEL, PRANAV N | 1 | 68.7% | +21.7% |
| CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1 | 41.1% | +50.8% |
| HULL, JAMES B | 1 | 45.4% | +52.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19097542 | RESTRAINED JOINT APPARATUS, USES OF, AND METHODS FOR MAKING, THE SAME | MINTZ, RODNEY K | — |
| 18896831 | CELLULOSE-BASED INSULATION AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | VERA, ELISA H | — |
| 18600619 | KINETIC FILTRATION DEVICE | PATEL, PRANAV N | — |
| 18290202 | HYBRID FIRE RETARDANT INSULATION AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547463 | ANATOMICAL HEAD AND NECK SIMULATOR APPARATUS | HULL, JAMES B | 28d overdue |
| 19097542 | RESTRAINED JOINT APPARATUS, USES OF, AND METHODS FOR MAKING, THE SAME | MINTZ, RODNEY K | — |
| 18896831 | CELLULOSE-BASED INSULATION AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | VERA, ELISA H | — |
| 18600619 | KINETIC FILTRATION DEVICE | PATEL, PRANAV N | — |
| 18290202 | HYBRID FIRE RETARDANT INSULATION AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| CLEANFIBER INC. | 2 |
| Norman L. Olson | 1 |
| Bastion Law, LLC | 1 |
| HALO MED LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19097542 | RESTRAINED JOINT APPARATUS, USES OF, AND METHODS FOR MAKING, THE SAME | Norman L. Olson | MINTZ, RODNEY K | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 | |
| 18896831 | CELLULOSE-BASED INSULATION AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | Cleanfiber Inc. | VERA, ELISA H | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 | |
| 18600619 | KINETIC FILTRATION DEVICE | Bastion Law, LLC | PATEL, PRANAV N | 1777 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18290202 | HYBRID FIRE RETARDANT INSULATION AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | Cleanfiber Inc. | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1748 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18547463 | ANATOMICAL HEAD AND NECK SIMULATOR APPARATUS | Halo Med LLC | HULL, JAMES B | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
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