Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 3 (21%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (71%) |
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 | 3 | 59.0% | +22.5% |
| DONDERO, WILLIAM E | 1 | 73.6% | +16.5% |
| WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | 1 | 80.6% | +25.3% |
| FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 1 | 75.4% | +24.8% |
| KONERU, LAKSHMI S | 1 | 62.6% | +15.9% |
| REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 78.9% | +19.7% |
| NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 1 | 78.8% | +16.8% |
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 70.0% | +9.4% |
| NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 1 | 72.5% | +17.5% |
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.1% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19264608 | FLUID CONTROL VALVE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710795 | SLIDING ELEMENT | PATEL, VISHAL A | 6d |
| 19275875 | SLIDING COMPONENT | DONDERO, WILLIAM E | 34d |
| 18841655 | FLUID PRESSURE CIRCUIT | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 62d |
| 19284533 | SLIDING COMPONENT | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| 19142057 | SLIDING COMPONENTS | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | — |
| 19135343 | SLIDING COMPONENTS | KONERU, LAKSHMI S | — |
| 18868584 | MECHANICAL SEAL | BYRD, EUGENE G | — |
| 18840067 | FLUID PRESSURE CIRCUIT | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710795 | SLIDING ELEMENT | PATEL, VISHAL A | 6d |
| 19275875 | SLIDING COMPONENT | DONDERO, WILLIAM E | 34d |
| 18841655 | FLUID PRESSURE CIRCUIT | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 62d |
| 19284533 | SLIDING COMPONENT | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| 19264608 | FLUID CONTROL VALVE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — |
| 19142057 | SLIDING COMPONENTS | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | — |
| 19135343 | SLIDING COMPONENTS | KONERU, LAKSHMI S | — |
| 18879683 | VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 7 |
| 3753 | 2 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19284533 | SLIDING COMPONENT | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2025 |
| 19275875 | SLIDING COMPONENT | DONDERO, WILLIAM E | 3993 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 19264608 | FLUID CONTROL VALVE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2025 |
| 19142057 | SLIDING COMPONENTS | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 3675 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19135343 | SLIDING COMPONENTS | KONERU, LAKSHMI S | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 18879683 | VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18878014 | BEARING | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2024 |
| 18868584 | MECHANICAL SEAL | BYRD, EUGENE G | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18841655 | FLUID PRESSURE CIRCUIT | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 3745 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18840067 | FLUID PRESSURE CIRCUIT | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18710795 | SLIDING ELEMENT | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18686250 | SLIDING COMPONENT | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18284145 | SLIDING COMPONENT | RUNYAN, SILVANA C | 3674 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18280921 | SHAFT SEALING DEVICE | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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