Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Briggs & Stratton LLC currently manages 8 pending office actions. These actions are located within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The prosecution effort involves 8 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units.
MORALES, OMAR is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action is part of the 8 pending office actions currently active. Because there are 8 distinct examiners for 8 pending office actions, the workload is spread such that each examiner handles 1 case.
The involvement of 5 distinct art units indicates that the company's Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics innovations are reviewed across several specialized groups. For a practitioner, this means that while each of the 8 pending office actions has a different examiner, some examiners are grouped within the same art units. MORALES, OMAR is 1 of the eight individual points of contact for the current portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 2 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORALES, OMAR | 1 | 59.7% | +16.5% |
| CAVALLARI, DANIEL | 1 | 78.6% | +13.9% |
| BARNETT, JOEL | 1 | 80.4% | +11.3% |
| CHACE, CHRISTIAN | 1 | 19.7% | +23.0% |
| VIANA DI PRISCO, GERMAN | 1 | 66.3% | +24.2% |
| SMITH, COURTNEY L | 1 | 85.5% | +12.0% |
| GRANT, ROBERT J | 1 | 76.2% | +17.6% |
| PETTIEGREW, TOYA R | 1 | 65.4% | +17.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19025572 | SMART SWITCHING PANEL FOR SECONDARY POWER SUPPLY | BARNETT, JOEL | 43d overdue |
| 18392403 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A STANDBY GENERATOR | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 11d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18422808 | EQUIPMENT TRACKING SYSTEM | VIANA DI PRISCO, GERMAN | 147d overdue |
| 17766995 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE WITH MULTIPLE PORTS | PETTIEGREW, TOYA R | 27d |
| 19025615 | SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR LAWN CARE | CHACE, CHRISTIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18422808 | EQUIPMENT TRACKING SYSTEM | VIANA DI PRISCO, GERMAN | 147d overdue |
| 19025572 | SMART SWITCHING PANEL FOR SECONDARY POWER SUPPLY | BARNETT, JOEL | 43d overdue |
| 18392403 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A STANDBY GENERATOR | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 11d overdue |
| 17766995 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE WITH MULTIPLE PORTS | PETTIEGREW, TOYA R | 27d |
| 19029964 | USER-SCALABLE POWER UNIT INCLUDING REMOVABLE BATTERY PACKS | CAVALLARI, DANIEL | 35d |
| 19182899 | VERTICALLY STORABLE ENGINE AND MOWER | MORALES, OMAR | — |
| 19025615 | SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR LAWN CARE | CHACE, CHRISTIAN | — |
| 18290057 | BATTERY CHARGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GRANT, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2836 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2642 | 1 |
| 2835 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19182899 | VERTICALLY STORABLE ENGINE AND MOWER | MORALES, OMAR | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19029964 | USER-SCALABLE POWER UNIT INCLUDING REMOVABLE BATTERY PACKS | CAVALLARI, DANIEL | 2836 | §112 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025572 | SMART SWITCHING PANEL FOR SECONDARY POWER SUPPLY | BARNETT, JOEL | 2849 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19025615 | SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR LAWN CARE | CHACE, CHRISTIAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18422808 | EQUIPMENT TRACKING SYSTEM | VIANA DI PRISCO, GERMAN | 2642 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18392403 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A STANDBY GENERATOR | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 2835 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18290057 | BATTERY CHARGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GRANT, ROBERT J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 17766995 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE WITH MULTIPLE PORTS | PETTIEGREW, TOYA R | 3662 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Apr 06, 2022 |
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