Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Danfoss (Tianjin) Ltd. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and currently has 7 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's filings are clustered around specific mechanical or medical technologies. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, indicating some overlap in the individuals reviewing the company's applications.
The busiest examiner, DAVIS, MARY ALICE, is responsible for 3 pending cases, which accounts for a significant portion of the 7 pending office actions. This concentration with a single examiner provides a focal point for prosecution strategy, as the outcomes of multiple pending matters depend on DAVIS, MARY ALICE. With 3 distinct art units involved, practitioners must manage the portfolio across different technical divisions, though the examiner concentration suggests a more streamlined communication path than a fully decentralized portfolio would allow.
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 | 1 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3 | 77.4% | +31.8% |
| SINGH, DAPINDER | 1 | 82.6% | +18.6% |
| PHAM, LEDA T | 1 | 74.8% | +11.5% |
| HARRIS, WESLEY G | 1 | 73.3% | +22.0% |
| SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | 1 | 75.0% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099066 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | SINGH, DAPINDER | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725449 | COMPRESSOR | HARRIS, WESLEY G | 36d |
| 19099069 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 48d |
| 18725937 | DRIVE MEMBER FOR A DUAL ROTATING SCROLL COMPRESSOR | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 55d |
| 18833534 | MOTOR, SCROLL COMPRESSOR AND PROCESSING METHOD OF MOTOR | PHAM, LEDA T | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005995 | STATOR FOR DISK MOTOR, STATOR SUPPORTING RING AND COMPRESSOR | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | 44d overdue |
| 18725449 | COMPRESSOR | HARRIS, WESLEY G | 36d |
| 19099069 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 48d |
| 19099074 | SCROLL FOR SCROLL COMPRESSOR AND SCROLL COMPRESSOR | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 55d |
| 18725937 | DRIVE MEMBER FOR A DUAL ROTATING SCROLL COMPRESSOR | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 55d |
| 19099066 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | SINGH, DAPINDER | — |
| 18833534 | MOTOR, SCROLL COMPRESSOR AND PROCESSING METHOD OF MOTOR | PHAM, LEDA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 4 |
| 2834 | 2 |
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19099069 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3746 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19099066 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | SINGH, DAPINDER | 3746 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19099074 | SCROLL FOR SCROLL COMPRESSOR AND SCROLL COMPRESSOR | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18833534 | MOTOR, SCROLL COMPRESSOR AND PROCESSING METHOD OF MOTOR | PHAM, LEDA T | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18725937 | DRIVE MEMBER FOR A DUAL ROTATING SCROLL COMPRESSOR | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18725449 | COMPRESSOR | HARRIS, WESLEY G | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18005995 | STATOR FOR DISK MOTOR, STATOR SUPPORTING RING AND COMPRESSOR | SCHLAK, DANIEL KEITH | 2834 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
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