Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Federal Signal Corporation has 5 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating a small docket with limited repetition in examiner assignments.
CATTANACH, COLIN J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data does not show a meaningful examiner concentration, so prosecution can be managed primarily through application-specific review and coordination of technical positions across the few related art-unit settings.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATTANACH, COLIN J | 1 | 59.1% | +19.8% |
| LI, HELEN | 1 | 69.1% | +13.5% |
| PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | 1 | 85.3% | +10.2% |
| OQUENDO, CARIB A | 1 | 78.0% | +12.2% |
| SCOVILLE, BLAKE E | 1 | 73.5% | +29.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19047340 | BOOM TURRET FOR AN EXCAVATION VEHICLE AND METHOD THEREOF | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19044089 | GRINDER TRUCK | OQUENDO, CARIB A | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19395098 | TILT-ADAPTING LIGHTING SYSTEM | CATTANACH, COLIN J | — |
| 19269288 | RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | LI, HELEN | — |
| 19047340 | BOOM TURRET FOR AN EXCAVATION VEHICLE AND METHOD THEREOF | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
| 19044089 | GRINDER TRUCK | OQUENDO, CARIB A | — |
| 18904847 | VACUUM VEHICLE WITH ELECTRICALLY NON-CONDUCTIVE BOOM | SCOVILLE, BLAKE E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 2 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19395098 | TILT-ADAPTING LIGHTING SYSTEM | CATTANACH, COLIN J | 2875 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2025 |
| 19269288 | RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | LI, HELEN | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19047340 | BOOM TURRET FOR AN EXCAVATION VEHICLE AND METHOD THEREOF | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | 3671 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19044089 | GRINDER TRUCK | OQUENDO, CARIB A | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18904847 | VACUUM VEHICLE WITH ELECTRICALLY NON-CONDUCTIVE BOOM | SCOVILLE, BLAKE E | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFederal Signal Corporation has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Colin J Cattanach has the most, with 1 of Federal Signal Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
