Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dy Auto Corporation currently has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 5 pending matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners. The portfolio's active applications are spread across 3 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of mechanical or medical subject matter within the company's primary technical focus.
The busiest examiner for the company is KARLS, SHAY LYNN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, with each examiner handling exactly one pending action. This distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that no single examiner currently dominates the prosecution pipeline for the entity.
Practitioners should note that the engagement with 5 distinct examiners requires a flexible prosecution strategy. While the workload is distributed, the concentration within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area ensures that the 3 distinct art units will be the primary focus for future filings. Monitoring the specific trends in these units will be essential for maintaining consistency across the 5 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KARLS, SHAY LYNN | 1 | 68.9% | +26.8% |
| HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | 1 | 74.5% | +60.9% |
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.3% | +40.0% |
| COLEMAN, RYAN L | 1 | 56.0% | +59.7% |
| CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 1 | 53.1% | +41.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531415 | NOZZLE SYSTEM | HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | — |
| 18373015 | NOZZLE SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
| 17889825 | SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING WASHER LIQUID | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18141607 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISCHARGE PRESSURE OF FLUID FOR WASHING A SENSOR | COLEMAN, RYAN L | 5d |
| 18968591 | WIPER BLADE DEVICE INCLUDING IMPROVED STRUCTURE FOR PREVENTING SEPARATION OF SPOILER | KARLS, SHAY LYNN | — |
| 18531415 | NOZZLE SYSTEM | HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | — |
| 18373015 | NOZZLE SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
| 17889825 | SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING WASHER LIQUID | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 2 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18968591 | WIPER BLADE DEVICE INCLUDING IMPROVED STRUCTURE FOR PREVENTING SEPARATION OF SPOILER | KARLS, SHAY LYNN | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18531415 | NOZZLE SYSTEM | HARRINGTON, ALYSON JOAN | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18373015 | NOZZLE SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18141607 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISCHARGE PRESSURE OF FLUID FOR WASHING A SENSOR | COLEMAN, RYAN L | 1714 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | May 01, 2023 |
| 17889825 | SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING WASHER LIQUID | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 3752 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2022 |
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