Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carlisle Fluid Technologies LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, with THOMAS, BINU identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. All pending matters are located within 1 distinct art unit.
With 2 distinct examiners managing the pending office actions, the company faces a decentralized examination process where each case is reviewed by a different person. This requires the applicant to manage separate professional relationships and sets of examiner expectations. However, the fact that these examiners operate within 1 distinct art unit provides a level of procedural consistency, as both cases are subject to the same supervisory oversight and art unit-specific practices.
The role of THOMAS, BINU as the busiest examiner involves 1 pending office action, matching the workload of the other examiner involved. This distribution suggests a balanced but fragmented prosecution landscape. Practitioners must ensure that arguments made to the distinct examiners do not conflict, even though both are within the same technical division. The 2 pending office actions represent the current focus of the company's legal team.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, BINU | 1 | 72.7% | +26.5% |
| GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.6% | +34.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838131 | Electrostatic Coating Machine | THOMAS, BINU | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838131 | Electrostatic Coating Machine | THOMAS, BINU | — |
| 18715988 | SPRAY FOAM PRESSURE DIFFERENCE CONTROL SYSTEM | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18838131 | Electrostatic Coating Machine | THOMAS, BINU | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18715988 | SPRAY FOAM PRESSURE DIFFERENCE CONTROL SYSTEM | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
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