Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dover Pumps & Process Solutions Segment Inc. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution is limited to a distinct art unit and a single distinct examiner. PATEL, VISHAL A is the busiest examiner listed, holding the 1 pending office action. This data shows a narrow prosecution footprint with all active work consolidated under a single examiner, which simplifies the communication channel for this specific portfolio.
Because the 1 pending office action is the only active matter, the company's progress in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area is currently focused on a single point of review. PATEL, VISHAL A serves as the primary gatekeeper for this technology. For the applicant, this means that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for multiple examiner temperaments or conflicting art unit requirements, allowing for a highly specific and focused engagement with the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.0% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084373 | PRESSURE BREAKER WITH COMPOSITE RING | PATEL, VISHAL A | 22d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084373 | PRESSURE BREAKER WITH COMPOSITE RING | PATEL, VISHAL A | 22d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084373 | PRESSURE BREAKER WITH COMPOSITE RING | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
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