Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
A. Raymond et Cie currently manages 14 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 9 distinct art units, showing a distribution of technical subject matter. The company is working with 13 distinct examiners, which indicates that nearly every pending office action is being reviewed by a different individual.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is CHAUDHRI, OMAIR, who is handling 2 of the pending office actions. This leaves the remaining pending office actions to be distributed among the other 13 distinct examiners. The 9 distinct art units suggest that while the 14 pending office actions are concentrated in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems, they span a variety of specific technical subgroups within that field.
Managing the workload across 13 distinct examiners requires a strategy that accounts for the individual preferences of many different officials while maintaining consistency across the 9 distinct art units. The 2 pending office actions assigned to CHAUDHRI, OMAIR represent the only concentration of work under a single examiner. This distribution across 14 pending office actions necessitates a broad approach to prosecution within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 2 | 65.9% | +22.7% |
| CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 1 | 74.4% | +11.3% |
| HEWITT, JAMES M | 1 | 69.6% | +45.3% |
| PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | 1 | 67.8% | +35.3% |
| STERLING, AMY JO | 1 | 76.6% | +10.5% |
| MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 1 | 69.0% | +19.6% |
| DEMOSKY, PATRICK E | 1 | 65.4% | -9.2% |
| ARANT, HARRY E | 1 | 49.6% | +21.4% |
| ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1 | 65.9% | +64.5% |
| DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | 1 | 79.6% | +4.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18350467 | MANIFOLD CASE AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING SUCH A MANIFOLD CASE | ALVARE, PAUL | 14d |
| 18720928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CLEAN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED COMPONENTS | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 20d |
| 19320081 | QUICK CONNECTOR | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | — |
| 19123629 | NOZZLE FOR AUTOMATIC CLEANING OF A SENSOR | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | — |
| 19107416 | PIN | STERLING, AMY JO | — |
| 18877041 | Fastening Part | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — |
| 18888454 | ARRANGEMENT FOR MOUNTING AN OPTICAL SYSTEM ON A BODY ELEMENT OF A VEHICLE | DEMOSKY, PATRICK E | — |
| 18710924 | PASS THROUGH ASSEMBLY CONFIRMATION QUICK CONNECTOR | DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210290 | COUPLING DEVICE FOR A TUBE | HEWITT, JAMES M | 32d overdue |
| 18838835 | HEAT EXCHANGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING THE DEVICE | ARANT, HARRY E | 15d overdue |
| 18720928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CLEAN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED COMPONENTS | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 20d |
| 19320081 | QUICK CONNECTOR | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | — |
| 19123629 | NOZZLE FOR AUTOMATIC CLEANING OF A SENSOR | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | — |
| 19107416 | PIN | STERLING, AMY JO | — |
| 18877041 | Fastening Part | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — |
| 18684571 | AUTOMATIC VALVE FOR CLEANING THE SENSOR SURFACES OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 3 |
| 3752 | 2 |
| 3763 | 2 |
| 1711 | 2 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19320081 | QUICK CONNECTOR | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 3679 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 19210290 | COUPLING DEVICE FOR A TUBE | HEWITT, JAMES M | 3679 | §102 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 19123629 | NOZZLE FOR AUTOMATIC CLEANING OF A SENSOR | PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19107416 | PIN | STERLING, AMY JO | 3677 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18877041 | Fastening Part | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18888454 | ARRANGEMENT FOR MOUNTING AN OPTICAL SYSTEM ON A BODY ELEMENT OF A VEHICLE | DEMOSKY, PATRICK E | 2486 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18838835 | HEAT EXCHANGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING THE DEVICE | ARANT, HARRY E | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18720928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CLEAN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED COMPONENTS | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1714 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18710924 | PASS THROUGH ASSEMBLY CONFIRMATION QUICK CONNECTOR | DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18684571 | AUTOMATIC VALVE FOR CLEANING THE SENSOR SURFACES OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 1711 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18291171 | CONTACT SYSTEM AND BATTERY SET COMPRISING IT | PAUMEN, GARY F | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18291187 | BATTERY UNIT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLY OF THE SYSTEM | EGGERDING, ALIX ECHELMEYER | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18286442 | CAMERA NOZZLE ASSEMBLY | CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 1711 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18286443 | FAR FIELD LIDAR NOZZLE ASSEMBLY AND BLOWER BRACKET | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18350467 | MANIFOLD CASE AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING SUCH A MANIFOLD CASE | ALVARE, PAUL | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
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