Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. Inc. has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are being reviewed by 5 distinct examiners, meaning every active case is assigned to a different individual. The portfolio is concentrated within 2 distinct art units relative to the 5 pending office actions, suggesting the technology falls into the set of classifications managed by those groups.
The busiest examiner, ROBERT FRANKLIN LONG, is currently handling 1 pending office action. Because each of the distinct examiners is responsible for a pending action, the workload is evenly distributed across the assigned staff. This lack of concentration means no individual examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current prosecution pipeline.
The focus on 2 distinct art units for the active matters indicates that while examiners vary, the administrative oversight is relatively centralized. This structure may lead to more consistent application of art unit policies even as individual examiner interactions remain unique for each of the matters.
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 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.3% | +20.5% |
| IMAM, TANZIM | 1 | 71.2% | +27.2% |
| DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
| ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| CHANG, MINKI | 1 | 71.6% | +10.1% |
| GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 1 | 77.9% | +19.2% |
| FRY, PATRICK B | 1 | 53.9% | +8.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19075023 | CORDLESS RIVET TOOL WITH RING LIGHT | DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | — |
| 19075006 | RIVET TOOL HAVING AN ASYMMETRIC RIVET PIN COLLECTOR | ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | — |
| 19046182 | LIQUID COOLED MOTOR FOR COMPRESSOR AIR END | CHANG, MINKI | — |
| 18615476 | MULTIPLE POSITION NON-CONTACT TRIGGER SYSTEM FOR A POWER TOOL | FRY, PATRICK B | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19329549 | IMPACT WRENCH HAVING DYNAMICALLY TUNED DRIVE COMPONENTS AND METHOD THEREOF | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | — |
| 19306280 | IMPACT TOOL WITH FRONT LUBRICATION ASSEMBLY | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
| 19046182 | LIQUID COOLED MOTOR FOR COMPRESSOR AIR END | CHANG, MINKI | — |
| 18790271 | HYBRID LOW DEW POINT COMPRESSED AIR DRYER | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 3 |
| 3725 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19329549 | IMPACT WRENCH HAVING DYNAMICALLY TUNED DRIVE COMPONENTS AND METHOD THEREOF | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 3731 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19306280 | IMPACT TOOL WITH FRONT LUBRICATION ASSEMBLY | IMAM, TANZIM | 3731 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19075023 | CORDLESS RIVET TOOL WITH RING LIGHT | DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19075006 | RIVET TOOL HAVING AN ASYMMETRIC RIVET PIN COLLECTOR | ORTIZ-ORTIZ, ALONDRA MICHELLE | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19046182 | LIQUID COOLED MOTOR FOR COMPRESSOR AIR END | CHANG, MINKI | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18790271 | HYBRID LOW DEW POINT COMPRESSED AIR DRYER | GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL | 3753 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18615476 | MULTIPLE POSITION NON-CONTACT TRIGGER SYSTEM FOR A POWER TOOL | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
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