Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Imperial Pools Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a lack of overlap in the current examination process. This distribution suggests that the company's filings cover different technical aspects of mechanical engineering across the 2 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, BAKER, LORI LYNN, is handling 1 pending action. With 2 pending office actions in 2 distinct art units, the company must address the specific standards of two separate examination groups. This fragmented structure involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning that the feedback from one cannot be directly applied to the other. The prosecution team must manage two independent tracks, each with its own examiner and art unit requirements, to advance the 2 pending office actions within the medical device and mechanical engineering portfolio.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAKER, LORI LYNN | 1 | 78.6% | +6.6% |
| HERRING, BRENT W | 1 | 69.0% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19012226 | POOL STAIR FORMS AND METHODS OF FORMING POOL STAIRS | HERRING, BRENT W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19012226 | POOL STAIR FORMS AND METHODS OF FORMING POOL STAIRS | HERRING, BRENT W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19034048 | MODULAR POOL SYSTEMS FOR PARTIAL INGROUND INSTALLATION | BAKER, LORI LYNN | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19012226 | POOL STAIR FORMS AND METHODS OF FORMING POOL STAIRS | HERRING, BRENT W | 3633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialImperial Pools Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Lori Lynn Baker has the most, with 1 of Imperial Pools Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
