Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 60 patents granted in the last 365 days
Graco Minnesota Inc. has 14 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters span 10 examiners and 5 art units, showing examiner diversity within a smaller set of technical groupings.
GORMAN, DARREN W handles the largest identified examiner assignment, with 3 pending matters. The difference between the examiner and art-unit figures suggests that some art units contain matters handled by multiple examiners, making art-unit patterns useful alongside examiner-specific review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 1 (7%) |
| §102 only | 3 (21%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 2 | 65.8% | +35.6% |
| GORMAN, DARREN W | 2 | 79.2% | +24.7% |
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 2 | 51.7% | +39.6% |
| BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 1 | 78.3% | +8.3% |
| JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 1 | 80.1% | +17.3% |
| PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 1 | 74.5% | +14.8% |
| LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 1 | 64.3% | +52.5% |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.6% |
| CHEN, KUANGYUE | 1 | 63.2% | +45.4% |
| BOECKMANN, JASON J | 1 | 49.0% | +28.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19157883 | TANK OVERFILL AND PUMP RUNAWAY PREVENTION FOR A FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18289471 | MIXER, AIR CAP, AND MIX CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR A PLURAL COMPONENT SPRAYER | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 15d |
| 18997983 | FLUID SPRAYER HAVING ACTIVE COOLING | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | — |
| 18992050 | PUMP AND FLUID DISPLACER FOR A PUMP | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | — |
| 18988147 | ALIGNMENT TOOL FOR A SPRAY GUN AIR CAP | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | — |
| 18987467 | HANDHELD FLUID SPRAYER | GORMAN, DARREN W | — |
| 18867699 | PUMP DRIVE SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
| 18825470 | PORTABLE AIRLESS SPRAYER | GORMAN, DARREN W | — |
| 18651067 | FLUID SPRAYER AND COMPONENTS OF A FLUID SPRAYER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18025288 | FAN AIR LEVER FOR A SPRAY GUN | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 12d |
| 18289471 | MIXER, AIR CAP, AND MIX CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR A PLURAL COMPONENT SPRAYER | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 15d |
| 19157883 | TANK OVERFILL AND PUMP RUNAWAY PREVENTION FOR A FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | — |
| 18997983 | FLUID SPRAYER HAVING ACTIVE COOLING | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | — |
| 18992050 | PUMP AND FLUID DISPLACER FOR A PUMP | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | — |
| 18988147 | ALIGNMENT TOOL FOR A SPRAY GUN AIR CAP | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | — |
| 18987467 | HANDHELD FLUID SPRAYER | GORMAN, DARREN W | — |
| 18867699 | PUMP DRIVE SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 9 |
| 3746 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19480745 | ACTIVE CHECKED MULTIPLE DISPLACER ASSEMBLY | BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 3746 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2025 |
| 19157883 | TANK OVERFILL AND PUMP RUNAWAY PREVENTION FOR A FLUID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2025 |
| 18997983 | FLUID SPRAYER HAVING ACTIVE COOLING | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18992050 | PUMP AND FLUID DISPLACER FOR A PUMP | PLAKKOOTTAM, DOMINICK L | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18988147 | ALIGNMENT TOOL FOR A SPRAY GUN AIR CAP | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18987467 | HANDHELD FLUID SPRAYER | GORMAN, DARREN W | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18867699 | PUMP DRIVE SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18825470 | PORTABLE AIRLESS SPRAYER | GORMAN, DARREN W | 3752 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18651067 | FLUID SPRAYER AND COMPONENTS OF A FLUID SPRAYER | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18564930 | PORTABLE FLUID SPRAYER HAVING A TUBE DAMPENER | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18289471 | MIXER, AIR CAP, AND MIX CHAMBER ASSEMBLY FOR A PLURAL COMPONENT SPRAYER | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18270347 | INTERNALLY HEATED HOSE WIRE IMPREGNATION | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18025288 | FAN AIR LEVER FOR A SPRAY GUN | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 3752 | §102 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 17969459 | GROUND MARKING BEAD FLOW SENSOR | THOMAS, BINU | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialGraco Minnesota Inc. has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 11 examiners.
Christopher R. Dandridge has the most, with 2 of Graco Minnesota Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
