Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Broan-NuTone LLC currently faces 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. These proceedings are organized across 2 distinct art units, showing some level of technical diversification within the broader technology area.
FAULKNER, RYAN L is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner. This represents a segment of the 4 total pending office actions in the portfolio. The distribution of 4 distinct examiners across only 2 distinct art units suggests that multiple examiners are working within the same administrative groups to review the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications.
The portfolio's structure, featuring 4 distinct examiners, ensures that each application is receiving an independent review. FAULKNER, RYAN L's role with 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner is typical for this portfolio's even distribution of work. This spread across 2 distinct art units provides a focused but multi-personnel environment for the company's current patent prosecution, requiring counsel to coordinate across different examining styles.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 1 | 57.1% | +56.9% |
| FAULKNER, RYAN L | 1 | 67.5% | +17.2% |
| SCHULT, ALLEN | 1 | 67.7% | +31.2% |
| BADERMAN, SCOTT T | 1 | 45.9% | +3.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18585704 | VENTILATION SYSTEM FAN SCROLL | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | — |
| 18475395 | VENTILATION FAN | SCHULT, ALLEN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18585704 | VENTILATION SYSTEM FAN SCROLL | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | — |
| 18585590 | GRILLE ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR A VENTILATION SYSTEM | FAULKNER, RYAN L | — |
| 18475395 | VENTILATION FAN | SCHULT, ALLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 3 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18585704 | VENTILATION SYSTEM FAN SCROLL | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 3762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18585590 | GRILLE ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR A VENTILATION SYSTEM | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 3762 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18475395 | VENTILATION FAN | SCHULT, ALLEN | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 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 |
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