Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Federal Signal Corporation has 1 pending office action currently active. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC. The company's current prosecution is concentrated on this single filing. With 0 distinct art units listed, the company's interaction with the patent office is focused entirely on the review conducted by this one examiner.
PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates a very specific current focus for their patent portfolio. For a practitioner, the outcome of the company's current prosecution depends entirely on the requirements of this single individual.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | 1 | 85.2% | +10.1% |
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 | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19047340 | BOOM TURRET FOR AN EXCAVATION VEHICLE AND METHOD THEREOF | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047340 | BOOM TURRET FOR AN EXCAVATION VEHICLE AND METHOD THEREOF | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
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