Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Air Distribution Technologies IP LLC is currently managing 8 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct art units, showing a diverse range of technical classifications for the company's current filings. The portfolio involves 8 distinct examiners, which means every pending action is currently assigned to a different individual at the patent office.
PATEL, PARESH H is the busiest examiner for this company, holding 1 pending office action. This figure of 1 is consistent with the fact that there are 8 distinct examiners for the 8 total pending actions. The distribution across 5 art units suggests that the company's mechanical and medical innovations are being evaluated across multiple specialized divisions. For practitioners, this means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to 8 different examiner styles and 5 different art unit cultures. There is no central examiner or art unit that dominates the current portfolio, requiring a broad management approach for these 8 pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 1 (12%) |
| §102 only | 2 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, PARESH H | 1 | 79.5% | -1.1% |
| SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 1 | 74.1% | +28.1% |
| TRAN, BINH BACH THANH | 1 | 80.8% | +12.1% |
| TIGHE, DANA K | 1 | 75.8% | +16.7% |
| WONG, ELTON K | 1 | 78.1% | +19.1% |
| SCHULT, ALLEN | 1 | 67.7% | +31.2% |
| LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 1 | 57.1% | +56.9% |
| RUBY, TRAVIS C | 1 | 53.9% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18593723 | CIRCUIT BOARD WITH ALTERNATE COMPONENT INTEGRATION CAPABILITY | TRAN, BINH BACH THANH | 52d overdue |
| 18097596 | HVAC UNIT ACTUATOR ENCLOSURE | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 23d overdue |
| 18374927 | AXIAL FAN FOR HVAC SYSTEM | WONG, ELTON K | 5d |
| 18734845 | DRAINABLE ARCHITECTURAL LOUVER | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17691944 | INDUCTION DISPLACEMENT UNIT | RUBY, TRAVIS C | 146d overdue |
| 18369578 | PARALLEL FAN POWERED TERMINAL UNIT | SCHULT, ALLEN | 73d overdue |
| 18593723 | CIRCUIT BOARD WITH ALTERNATE COMPONENT INTEGRATION CAPABILITY | TRAN, BINH BACH THANH | 52d overdue |
| 18097596 | HVAC UNIT ACTUATOR ENCLOSURE | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 23d overdue |
| 18374927 | AXIAL FAN FOR HVAC SYSTEM | WONG, ELTON K | 5d |
| 18513414 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION OF DAMPER POSITION OF A SAFETY DAMPER | TIGHE, DANA K | 28d |
| 18734845 | DRAINABLE ARCHITECTURAL LOUVER | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 3 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18767807 | DAMPER INSPECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | PATEL, PARESH H | 2858 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18734845 | DRAINABLE ARCHITECTURAL LOUVER | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18593723 | CIRCUIT BOARD WITH ALTERNATE COMPONENT INTEGRATION CAPABILITY | TRAN, BINH BACH THANH | 2847 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 52d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18513414 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION OF DAMPER POSITION OF A SAFETY DAMPER | TIGHE, DANA K | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18374927 | AXIAL FAN FOR HVAC SYSTEM | WONG, ELTON K | 3745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18369578 | PARALLEL FAN POWERED TERMINAL UNIT | SCHULT, ALLEN | 3762 | DP | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18097596 | HVAC UNIT ACTUATOR ENCLOSURE | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 3762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
| 17691944 | INDUCTION DISPLACEMENT UNIT | RUBY, TRAVIS C | 3763 | §102 | Final Rejection | 146d overdue | Pending | Mar 10, 2022 |
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