Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Budderfly Inc. has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing some technical variety within the medical and mechanical sectors. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 5 pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution across 5 distinct examiners requires the company to manage five separate examiner relationships.
The busiest examiner is ERB, NATHAN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 5 distinct examiners for 5 actions, the workload is completely decentralized. The company must manage 5 separate examiner relationships across 2 distinct art units, requiring attention to the specific preferences of each examiner involved. Practitioners should note that each of the 5 pending office actions is being handled by a unique examiner, which may lead to different prosecution outcomes across the 2 distinct art units.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERB, NATHAN | 1 | 51.4% | +0.1% |
| FURDGE, LARRY L | 1 | 62.3% | +16.9% |
| WORKU, KIDEST | 1 | 84.9% | +2.8% |
| JONES, LOGAN P | 1 | 43.3% | +31.2% |
| ERDMAN, CHAD G | 1 | 80.1% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179809 | Machine Learning Application To Predictive Energy Management | ERDMAN, CHAD G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19094978 | SELF CONTAINED ICE-MAKER ENERGY EFFICIENCY BOOSTING SYSTEM | FURDGE, LARRY L | — |
| 18783890 | Intelligent Distribution Of Thermostat Profiles For Energy Management | WORKU, KIDEST | — |
| 18545509 | Food Warming System Utilizing Repurposed Air From Cooking Vents | JONES, LOGAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19094978 | SELF CONTAINED ICE-MAKER ENERGY EFFICIENCY BOOSTING SYSTEM | FURDGE, LARRY L | — |
| 18545509 | Food Warming System Utilizing Repurposed Air From Cooking Vents | JONES, LOGAN P | — |
| 18179809 | Machine Learning Application To Predictive Energy Management | ERDMAN, CHAD G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19281724 | Dynamic Real Time Average Monthly Energy Management System | ERB, NATHAN | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2025 |
| 19094978 | SELF CONTAINED ICE-MAKER ENERGY EFFICIENCY BOOSTING SYSTEM | FURDGE, LARRY L | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2025 |
| 18783890 | Intelligent Distribution Of Thermostat Profiles For Energy Management | WORKU, KIDEST | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18545509 | Food Warming System Utilizing Repurposed Air From Cooking Vents | JONES, LOGAN P | 3762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18179809 | Machine Learning Application To Predictive Energy Management | ERDMAN, CHAD G | 2116 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
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