Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Broan-Nutone LLC

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (50%)
§102 only1 (25%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
50% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CLARK, RYAN C 1 87.4% +8.6%
BADERMAN, SCOTT T 1 36.7% +0.0%
HAMILTON, FRANCES F 1 54.1% +38.5%
CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG 1 73.0% +25.2%

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
19023645 FLUSH-MOUNT FAN GRILLE CLARK, RYAN C 132d overdue

Interview Candidates (2)

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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18330496 MULTI-PIECE RANGE HAMILTON, FRANCES F 50d overdue
18179647 INDOOR AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3745 1
2118 1
3762 1
2119 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19023645 FLUSH-MOUNT FAN GRILLE CLARK, RYAN C 3745 §103 Non-Final OA 132d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2025
18474396 VENTILATION SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC FLOW BALANCING DERIVED FROM A NEURAL NETWORK AND METHODS OF USE BADERMAN, SCOTT T 2118 §102 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2023
18330496 MULTI-PIECE RANGE HAMILTON, FRANCES F 3762 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023
18179647 INDOOR AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD CHANG, VINCENT WEN-LIANG 2119 §112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Mar 07, 2023

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