Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dresser LLC has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that prosecution is distributed across examiners while remaining concentrated within a limited set of technical groups.
VENKATESAN, UMASHANKAR is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should track examiner-specific positions while also checking for recurring issues across the 2 art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VENKATESAN, UMASHANKAR | 1 | 79.7% | +13.6% |
| XU, PETER | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| WADDY, JONATHAN J | 1 | 71.8% | +36.6% |
| LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 1 | 73.6% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896594 | FABRICATING TRIM FOR A BALL VALVE | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 44d overdue |
| 18905883 | DIAGNOSING PART BEHAVIOR ON A CONTROL VALVE | XU, PETER | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18896594 | FABRICATING TRIM FOR A BALL VALVE | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 44d overdue |
| 18917907 | SECONDARY SEAL ON A SAFETY VALVE | VENKATESAN, UMASHANKAR | 9d |
| 18423655 | CONTROLLING NOISE ON SAFETY VALVES | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917907 | SECONDARY SEAL ON A SAFETY VALVE | VENKATESAN, UMASHANKAR | 3753 | §102 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18905883 | DIAGNOSING PART BEHAVIOR ON A CONTROL VALVE | XU, PETER | 2119 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18896594 | FABRICATING TRIM FOR A BALL VALVE | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18423655 | CONTROLLING NOISE ON SAFETY VALVES | LUKS, JEREMY AUSTIN | 2837 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDresser LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Umashankar Venkatesan has the most, with 1 of Dresser LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
