Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Electrolux Professional Inc. is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's mechanical innovations are being evaluated by a few specialized examination groups. The use of multiple art units suggests that the portfolio is somewhat concentrated, though it still spans different technical niches within the broader mechanical engineering field. Practitioners must be prepared to address the specific standards of each of the 3 distinct art units.
The 4 pending office actions are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners. This means that each of the pending office actions is assigned to a different individual, providing a variety of examiner perspectives. GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because 4 distinct examiners are involved, no single examiner holds a dominant portion of the pending workload. This distribution requires the legal team to manage four separate prosecution tracks simultaneously.
Practitioners should note that the 4 pending office actions are distributed such that each examiner, including GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N, is responsible for a pending office action. This distribution across the art units and examiners requires a tailored strategy for each application. The pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area reflect an active prosecution phase where individual examiner preferences will play a significant role. Success depends on coordinating efforts across the 3 distinct art units while respecting the unique approach of each examiner.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | 1 | 82.9% | +12.7% |
| TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | 1 | 83.7% | +14.5% |
| TEFERA, HIWOT E | 1 | 74.2% | +25.2% |
| FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 1 | 42.6% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943560 | PARALLEL FLOW PUMP | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | — |
| 18915251 | FLUID FLOW STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF USE FOR CONTINUOUS MOTION WASHING MACHINE | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | — |
| 18369047 | MODULAR PREPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | TEFERA, HIWOT E | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943560 | PARALLEL FLOW PUMP | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | — |
| 18915251 | FLUID FLOW STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF USE FOR CONTINUOUS MOTION WASHING MACHINE | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | — |
| 18369047 | MODULAR PREPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | TEFERA, HIWOT E | — |
| 17967787 | STEAMER SYSTEM AND METHOD | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18943560 | PARALLEL FLOW PUMP | GILLENWATERS, JACKSON N | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18915251 | FLUID FLOW STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF USE FOR CONTINUOUS MOTION WASHING MACHINE | TATE-SIMS, CRISTI J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18369047 | MODULAR PREPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | TEFERA, HIWOT E | 3637 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 17967787 | STEAMER SYSTEM AND METHOD | FERDOUSI, FAHMIDA NMN | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2022 |
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