Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Findlay Machine & Tool LLC

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

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%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (100%)

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
WILKENS, JANET MARIE 1 72.5% +12.6%
PERREAULT, ANDREW D 1 46.6% +18.6%
CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J 1 65.1% +35.9%
HONG, SEAHEE 1 68.7% +29.6%

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
18883025 OUTDOOR PATIO BOX CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J 19d overdue
19050508 SHIPPING TRAY FOR CHAIR SYSTEM AND METHOD WILKENS, JANET MARIE
18882975 LID WITH STANDOFFS FOR OUTDOOR PATIO BOX PERREAULT, ANDREW D
18623299 STOWABLE WORKSTATION AND ROLLING TOOLBOX DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD HONG, SEAHEE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3735 1
3733 1
3723 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19050508 SHIPPING TRAY FOR CHAIR SYSTEM AND METHOD WILKENS, JANET MARIE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 11, 2025
18882975 LID WITH STANDOFFS FOR OUTDOOR PATIO BOX PERREAULT, ANDREW D 3735 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 12, 2024
18883025 OUTDOOR PATIO BOX CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J 3733 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2024
18623299 STOWABLE WORKSTATION AND ROLLING TOOLBOX DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD HONG, SEAHEE 3723 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 01, 2024

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