Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Binks US LLC currently has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that at least one examiner is handling multiple applications for the company. This concentration can lead to more consistent feedback across related filings.
The prosecution activity is spread across 2 distinct art units. SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This means that a majority of the company's 3 pending office actions are under the review of a single individual, making his decisions particularly impactful for the company's intellectual property goals.
The 2 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's mechanical innovations fall into slightly different technical categories. Because SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD handles 2 pending office actions, the company may experience a more unified prosecution experience for those specific matters. With 2 distinct examiners in total, the company maintains a focused interaction with the USPTO.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COUSINEAU, CONNOR DANIEL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.7% | +39.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989743 | PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE OF LIQUID PAINT SUPPLY SYSTEMS | COUSINEAU, CONNOR DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18598182 | Systems and Methods For Improved Fluid Gun Delivery Systems | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 36d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2115 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989743 | PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE OF LIQUID PAINT SUPPLY SYSTEMS | COUSINEAU, CONNOR DANIEL | 2115 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18598182 | Systems and Methods For Improved Fluid Gun Delivery Systems | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBinks US LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Connor Daniel Cousineau has the most, with 1 of Binks US LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
