Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Exel Industries

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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%)
6
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (86%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
14% of docket
1
Information Tech
14% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
43% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PATTON, SPENCER D 1 73.6% +21.4%
ZHANG, RICHARD Z 1 64.4% +66.2%
MEILLER, SEAN V 1 77.5% +36.0%
YOUNG, MONICA S 1 74.6% +32.4%
FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG 1 57.5% +26.9%
BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 1 75.3% +30.3%
STANLEY, TYLER JAY 1 39.1% +52.2%

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18500377 POINT OF INTEREST SPRAY SYSTEM FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG 26d overdue
18308081 AGRICULTURAL HIGH-CLEARANCE VEHICLE WITH IMPROVED STEERING AND SUSPENSION COUPLING STANLEY, TYLER JAY 17d overdue
18781867 Process for Rinsing a Coating Product Application Device, and Associated Device ZHANG, RICHARD Z 8d overdue
18670179 SPRAY BOOM COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE SECONDARY DUCT SECTION MEILLER, SEAN V 12d
18612560 Indicator for Indicating the Occurrence of a Pressurized Fluid Leak in a Vent Chamber of a Pressurized Fluid Apparatus YOUNG, MONICA S 16d
18556192 METHOD FOR PREPARING A PRODUCT IN A SUITABLE QUANTITY FOR LOCALIZED TREATMENT IN A PLOT OF LAND BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 20d
18968860 Method for Calibrating a Multi-axis Robot Equipped with a Camera and a Printing Head and Robot Configured to Implement Such a Method PATTON, SPENCER D 39d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3656 1
1714 1
3741 1
2855 1
2117 1
2674 1
3611 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18968860 Method for Calibrating a Multi-axis Robot Equipped with a Camera and a Printing Head and Robot Configured to Implement Such a Method PATTON, SPENCER D 3656 §112 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Dec 04, 2024
18781867 Process for Rinsing a Coating Product Application Device, and Associated Device ZHANG, RICHARD Z 1714 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 23, 2024
18670179 SPRAY BOOM COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE SECONDARY DUCT SECTION MEILLER, SEAN V 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending May 21, 2024
18612560 Indicator for Indicating the Occurrence of a Pressurized Fluid Leak in a Vent Chamber of a Pressurized Fluid Apparatus YOUNG, MONICA S 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Mar 21, 2024
18500377 POINT OF INTEREST SPRAY SYSTEM FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2023
18556192 METHOD FOR PREPARING A PRODUCT IN A SUITABLE QUANTITY FOR LOCALIZED TREATMENT IN A PLOT OF LAND BEZUAYEHU, SOLOMON G 2674 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Oct 19, 2023
18308081 AGRICULTURAL HIGH-CLEARANCE VEHICLE WITH IMPROVED STEERING AND SUSPENSION COUPLING STANLEY, TYLER JAY 3611 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2023

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