Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 5 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 51 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bissell Inc. is managing 13 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 13 actions are distributed among 13 distinct examiners, which means no two pending matters share the same examiner. This high level of examiner variety requires the company to navigate thirteen different individual review styles and preferences simultaneously.
The company's pending applications are spread across 5 distinct art units. CAIN, AARON G is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since each of the 13 examiners is responsible for only 1 action, the pending matters are widely distributed across the 5 art units. This decentralized structure means that the company's overall success is not tied to the performance or timeline of any single examiner, but rather to the collective progress of 13 independent applications being reviewed by 13 different officials at the patent office.
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.
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 | 8 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAIN, AARON G | 1 | 43.2% | +29.5% |
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.1% | +14.5% |
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 1 | 58.6% | +59.2% |
| CARLSON, MARC | 1 | 71.0% | +23.3% |
| MIOTTO, ENRICO | 1 | — | — |
| GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | 1 | 69.9% | +45.3% |
| REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 1 | 69.2% | +4.2% |
| SAENZ, ALBERTO | 1 | 69.1% | +30.6% |
| FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 1 | 52.1% | +25.8% |
| MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 1 | 44.9% | +37.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19266667 | DISPLAYING A DYNAMICALLY CHANGING WET CLEAN PATH OF AN AUTONOMOUS FLOOR CLEANER | CAIN, AARON G | — |
| 18753317 | WAND OVERRIDE TOOL FOR EXTRACTION CLEANER | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
| 18678039 | FLOOR CLEANING NOZZLE FOR SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | CARLSON, MARC | — |
| 18610597 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS HAVING A SPRAY BAR ASSEMBLY | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | — |
| 18599487 | SURFACE CLEANING DEVICE AND CONCENTRATED STEAM SHOT ACCESSORY FOR SURFACE CLEANING DEVICE | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | — |
| 18080945 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS WITH STEAM DELIVERY | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18242714 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 83d |
| 19266667 | DISPLAYING A DYNAMICALLY CHANGING WET CLEAN PATH OF AN AUTONOMOUS FLOOR CLEANER | CAIN, AARON G | — |
| 18753317 | WAND OVERRIDE TOOL FOR EXTRACTION CLEANER | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
| 18733257 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS AND TRAY | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | — |
| 18678039 | FLOOR CLEANING NOZZLE FOR SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | CARLSON, MARC | — |
| 18610597 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS HAVING A SPRAY BAR ASSEMBLY | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | — |
| 18375059 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | SAENZ, ALBERTO | — |
| 18237478 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARTAUS | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 7 |
| 3745 | 2 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19266667 | DISPLAYING A DYNAMICALLY CHANGING WET CLEAN PATH OF AN AUTONOMOUS FLOOR CLEANER | CAIN, AARON G | 3656 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 18753317 | WAND OVERRIDE TOOL FOR EXTRACTION CLEANER | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18733257 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS AND TRAY | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18678039 | FLOOR CLEANING NOZZLE FOR SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | CARLSON, MARC | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18635395 | CLEANING TOOL FOR A SURFACE CLEANER | MIOTTO, ENRICO | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18610597 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS HAVING A SPRAY BAR ASSEMBLY | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | 3745 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18599487 | SURFACE CLEANING DEVICE AND CONCENTRATED STEAM SHOT ACCESSORY FOR SURFACE CLEANING DEVICE | REITZ, MICHAEL K. | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18375059 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | SAENZ, ALBERTO | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18242714 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 18237478 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARTAUS | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18228120 | AIR PURIFIER WITH ROTATABLE FILTER | ANBACHT, BRIT ELIZA | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18214147 | ACCESSORY TOOL FOR EXTRACTION CLEANER | HAWKINS, JASON KHALIL | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 18093513 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS WITH USER INTERFACE | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 18080945 | SURFACE CLEANING APPARATUS WITH STEAM DELIVERY | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
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