Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hayward Industries Inc. is currently navigating 9 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution of these matters is spread across 9 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending action is being handled by a different individual. This lack of examiner overlap suggests that the company cannot rely on a single relationship or consistent feedback loop from a specific examiner to streamline its portfolio.
The 9 pending office actions are further distributed across 8 distinct art units. This variety in art units implies that the company's mechanical engineering and medical device innovations are being evaluated against several different technical standards and examiner groups. GARDNER, NICOLE is the busiest examiner for the company, though she only has 1 pending office action. This reinforces the observation that the workload is entirely decentralized. Practitioners must be prepared to address 9 different sets of examiner expectations across the 8 art units involved in this portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (11%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.4% | +14.6% |
| CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 1 | 75.0% | +15.9% |
| BAKER, LORI LYNN | 1 | 78.6% | +6.6% |
| HACKENBERG, RACHEL J | 1 | 78.1% | +24.1% |
| TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | 1 | 75.1% | +20.7% |
| COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 1 | 57.7% | +38.9% |
| SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 1 | 61.9% | +20.0% |
| LIN, JASON | 1 | 72.9% | +23.5% |
| ERDMAN, CHAD G | 1 | 80.2% | +17.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18086887 | Systems and Methods for Providing Network Connectivity and Remote Monitoring, Optimization, and Control of Pool/Spa Equipment | ERDMAN, CHAD G | 30d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009453 | Compact Universal Gas Pool Heater And Associated Methods | BAKER, LORI LYNN | — |
| 18952333 | System and Method for Dynamic Device Discovery and Address Assignment | HACKENBERG, RACHEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18384159 | Modular Pool/Spa Control System | LIN, JASON | 59d overdue |
| 18086887 | Systems and Methods for Providing Network Connectivity and Remote Monitoring, Optimization, and Control of Pool/Spa Equipment | ERDMAN, CHAD G | 30d overdue |
| 18542549 | Systems And Methods For Smart Valve Control Of Pool And Spa Components And Operations | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 23d overdue |
| 18753268 | Universal Mount For A Variable Speed Pump Drive User Interface | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 53d |
| 19276784 | Y-Check Valves, Related Components, and Related Methods | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
| 19092387 | Lighting System For An Environment And A Control Module For Use Therein | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | — |
| 18952333 | System and Method for Dynamic Device Discovery and Address Assignment | HACKENBERG, RACHEL J | — |
| 18809785 | Check Valve With Integral Handle | TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 2454 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19276784 | Y-Check Valves, Related Components, and Related Methods | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2025 |
| 19092387 | Lighting System For An Environment And A Control Module For Use Therein | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2845 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19009453 | Compact Universal Gas Pool Heater And Associated Methods | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 3754 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18952333 | System and Method for Dynamic Device Discovery and Address Assignment | HACKENBERG, RACHEL J | 2454 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18809785 | Check Valve With Integral Handle | TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | 3799 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18753268 | Universal Mount For A Variable Speed Pump Drive User Interface | COMLEY, ALEXANDER BRYANT | 3746 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18542549 | Systems And Methods For Smart Valve Control Of Pool And Spa Components And Operations | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 3754 | §102 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18384159 | Modular Pool/Spa Control System | LIN, JASON | 2117 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18086887 | Systems and Methods for Providing Network Connectivity and Remote Monitoring, Optimization, and Control of Pool/Spa Equipment | ERDMAN, CHAD G | 2116 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHayward Industries Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 9 examiners.
Nicole Gardner has the most, with 1 of Hayward Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
