Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dometic Sweden AB is managing 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners. The portfolio involves 5 distinct art units.
GAYE, SAMBA NMN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending action. With 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, every pending case is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution across 5 distinct art units indicates a diverse set of examiner perspectives within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The data shows that for the 7 pending office actions, the company must engage with 7 distinct examiners. This lack of examiner overlap, combined with the presence of 5 distinct art units, suggests that the portfolio is technically varied. The 1 action per examiner requires a versatile prosecution strategy for each matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 1 | 63.5% | +34.9% |
| FINCH III, FRED E | 1 | 80.2% | +17.2% |
| WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | 1 | 45.8% | +46.9% |
| ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 48.9% | +19.2% |
| OMAR, AHMED H | 1 | 75.1% | +14.1% |
| MALLON, BRETT PETERSON | 1 | 64.8% | +26.0% |
| WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 1 | 51.7% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099191 | OVERCURRENT PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18888784 | TRUCK BED RACK SYSTEM | WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | 22d overdue |
| 19058996 | ACTIVE INSULATED CONTAINER | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | — |
| 18466456 | Advanced Battery Bank and Management Thereof | OMAR, AHMED H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18888784 | TRUCK BED RACK SYSTEM | WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | 22d overdue |
| 17912162 | Heating Apparatus and Recreational Vehicle With Heating Apparatus | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 29d |
| 19058996 | ACTIVE INSULATED CONTAINER | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | — |
| 19099191 | OVERCURRENT PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
| 18439008 | MOBILE AIR CONDITIONER | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18466456 | Advanced Battery Bank and Management Thereof | OMAR, AHMED H | — |
| 17998620 | Air Conditioning Unit | MALLON, BRETT PETERSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19058996 | ACTIVE INSULATED CONTAINER | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19099191 | OVERCURRENT PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD | FINCH III, FRED E | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18888784 | TRUCK BED RACK SYSTEM | WAGGENSPACK, ADAM J | 3734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18439008 | MOBILE AIR CONDITIONER | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18466456 | Advanced Battery Bank and Management Thereof | OMAR, AHMED H | 1752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 17998620 | Air Conditioning Unit | MALLON, BRETT PETERSON | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
| 17912162 | Heating Apparatus and Recreational Vehicle With Heating Apparatus | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
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