Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Electrolux Professional Inc.

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

Analysis

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.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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.

3
Hard (75%)
1
Medium (25%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (25%)
Multi-statute (no §101)3 (75%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
75% of docket
1
Business / Other
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview 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%

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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 —

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue 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 —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3745 1
3637 1
3761 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
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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