Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
DeLaval Holding AB currently has 7 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 7 distinct examiners, creating a distribution where each case is reviewed by a different individual. This suggests that the company's prosecution efforts are spread across many different individuals at the patent office.
The 7 pending office actions are spread across 6 distinct art units. This high number of 6 distinct art units for the pending actions indicates a broad technical range for the company's current filings. Practitioners must be prepared to handle the specific technical standards of these different groups while interacting with the 7 distinct examiners.
ROBERT T NGUYEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This reflects the broader pattern where each distinct examiner is responsible for a single case. The lack of examiner overlap means that there is no single examiner whose preferences or past decisions will influence more than one of the company's current pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 5 (71%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, ROBERT T | 1 | 83.4% | +10.9% |
| BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 1 | 44.0% | +32.0% |
| AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 1 | 65.2% | +13.7% |
| HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 1 | 59.6% | +49.2% |
| RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 1 | 87.3% | +10.3% |
| REYES, EDGAR | 1 | 37.0% | +29.4% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 32.6% | +58.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18248823 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND NON-VOLATILE DATA CARRIER | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19223202 | Milking Robot Controller, Method therefore, Computer Program and Non-Volatile Data Carrier | NGUYEN, ROBERT T | — |
| 18717222 | PARTURITION SURVEILLANCE AND ALERTING SYSTEM | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17618689 | A CONTROL UNIT AND A CASSETTE INSERTABLE IN A MILK ANALYSIS APPARATUS | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 60d overdue |
| 19223202 | Milking Robot Controller, Method therefore, Computer Program and Non-Volatile Data Carrier | NGUYEN, ROBERT T | — |
| 18717222 | PARTURITION SURVEILLANCE AND ALERTING SYSTEM | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | — |
| 18700644 | ROTARY MILKING PARLOR ARRANGEMENT, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND NON-VOLATILE DATA CARRIER | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | — |
| 18563270 | HAPTOGLOBIN DRY STICK | HUANG, MICKEY NMN | — |
| 18248823 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND NON-VOLATILE DATA CARRIER | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
| 18010175 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR MONITORING OPERATING PRESSURE IN A MILKING INSTALLATION, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND NON-VOLATILE DATA CARRIER | REYES, EDGAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 2 |
| 3791 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19223202 | Milking Robot Controller, Method therefore, Computer Program and Non-Volatile Data Carrier | NGUYEN, ROBERT T | 3642 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 18717222 | PARTURITION SURVEILLANCE AND ALERTING SYSTEM | BROUGHTON, SHAWN CURTIS | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18700644 | ROTARY MILKING PARLOR ARRANGEMENT, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND NON-VOLATILE DATA CARRIER | AFRIFA-KYEI, ANTHONY D | 2117 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18563270 | HAPTOGLOBIN DRY STICK | HUANG, MICKEY NMN | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18248823 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND NON-VOLATILE DATA CARRIER | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18010175 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR MONITORING OPERATING PRESSURE IN A MILKING INSTALLATION, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND NON-VOLATILE DATA CARRIER | REYES, EDGAR | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 17618689 | A CONTROL UNIT AND A CASSETTE INSERTABLE IN A MILK ANALYSIS APPARATUS | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2021 |
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