Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Edwards Limited

6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (67%)
2
Easy (33%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only2 (33%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
33% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 1 77.1% +30.7%
AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY 1 79.7% +17.6%
HAMMOND III, THOMAS M 1 75.4% +29.4%
TURNER, SONJI 1 73.8% +21.8%
COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT 1 57.1% +39.0%
SWEELY, KURT D 1 53.2% +34.4%

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18833681 SCROLL PUMP AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY 73d overdue
18291163 VACUUM GAUGE ASSEMBLY WITH ORIENTATION SENSOR HAMMOND III, THOMAS M 50d overdue
18250653 GAS ABATEMENT BY PLASMA SWEELY, KURT D 5d overdue
18263364 PUMP APPARATUS AND SYSTEM COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT 15d
19120059 SCROLL PUMP AND SCROLL PUMP INLET VALVE FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 30d
18578387 ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR CLEANING TURNER, SONJI 36d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3746 3
2855 1
1776 1
1718 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19120059 SCROLL PUMP AND SCROLL PUMP INLET VALVE FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 3746 §112 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Apr 10, 2025
18833681 SCROLL PUMP AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY 3746 §102 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2024
18291163 VACUUM GAUGE ASSEMBLY WITH ORIENTATION SENSOR HAMMOND III, THOMAS M 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jan 22, 2024
18578387 ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR CLEANING TURNER, SONJI 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Jan 11, 2024
18263364 PUMP APPARATUS AND SYSTEM COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 28, 2023
18250653 GAS ABATEMENT BY PLASMA SWEELY, KURT D 1718 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2023

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