Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Atlas Copco AB

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only1 (11%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
22% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE 1 78.3% +23.0%
MYERS, KEITH STANLEY 1 52.3% +19.8%
DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO 1 62.8% +34.1%
GRAY, PAUL J 1 78.0% +10.0%
EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU 1 100.0% +0.0%
SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 1 64.5% +40.3%
LINDSAY, BERNARD G 1 68.1% +46.3%
ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T 1 54.4% +26.6%
BRANDT, DAVID NELSON 1 69.6% +49.5%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18559739 DEVICE FOR PURIFYING GAS EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17622464 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MACHINE PARTS, SUCH AS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO COMPRESSOR, EXPANDER OR VACUUM PUMP PARTS AND MACHINE PART MANUFACTURED BY SAID METHOD ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T 22d
18861513 FOUR-WAY VALVE AND DRYER PROVIDED WITH SUCH A FOUR-WAY VALVE CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE 71d
18843867 AIR-COOLED PRESSURIZING DEVICE MYERS, KEITH STANLEY
18843836 AIR-COOLED COMPRESSOR INSTALLATION WITH INTEGRATED DRYER DEVICE DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO
18692921 ASSEMBLY FOR COMPRESSING GAS, METHOD FOR SUPPLYING COMPRESSED GAS, AND USE OF SUCH AN ASSEMBLY GRAY, PAUL J
18465216 FAD DRYER REGULATING SYSTEM AND METHOD SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE
18266638 METHOD FOR ASSESSING A CONDITION OF A PNEUMATIC NETWORK LINDSAY, BERNARD G
17041007 MULTI-STAGE COMPRESSOR UNIT AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE ROTATIONAL SPEED OF THE MOTORS BRANDT, DAVID NELSON

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3753 2
3763 2
1776 2
2119 1
3761 1
3783 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18861513 FOUR-WAY VALVE AND DRYER PROVIDED WITH SUCH A FOUR-WAY VALVE CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Oct 29, 2024
18843867 AIR-COOLED PRESSURIZING DEVICE MYERS, KEITH STANLEY 3763 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2024
18843836 AIR-COOLED COMPRESSOR INSTALLATION WITH INTEGRATED DRYER DEVICE DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO 3763 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2024
18692921 ASSEMBLY FOR COMPRESSING GAS, METHOD FOR SUPPLYING COMPRESSED GAS, AND USE OF SUCH AN ASSEMBLY GRAY, PAUL J 3753 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 18, 2024
18559739 DEVICE FOR PURIFYING GAS EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU 1776 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 08, 2023
18465216 FAD DRYER REGULATING SYSTEM AND METHOD SLAUGOVSKY, RACHEL MARIE 1776 §102 Final Rejection Pending Sep 12, 2023
18266638 METHOD FOR ASSESSING A CONDITION OF A PNEUMATIC NETWORK LINDSAY, BERNARD G 2119 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 12, 2023
17622464 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MACHINE PARTS, SUCH AS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO COMPRESSOR, EXPANDER OR VACUUM PUMP PARTS AND MACHINE PART MANUFACTURED BY SAID METHOD ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 23, 2021
17041007 MULTI-STAGE COMPRESSOR UNIT AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE ROTATIONAL SPEED OF THE MOTORS BRANDT, DAVID NELSON 3783 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 24, 2020

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