Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inpro/Seal LLC currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are split between distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing no overlap in the current review personnel.
MANLEY, SHERMAN D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action under their review. Because the 2 pending actions are handled by different examiners, the company must address the specific requirements of separate art units simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANLEY, SHERMAN D | 1 | 84.0% | +11.7% |
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.0% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999958 | Natural Gas Engines with Fuel Quality Determination | MANLEY, SHERMAN D | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651207 | Shaft Seal Assembly | PATEL, VISHAL A | 26d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651207 | Shaft Seal Assembly | PATEL, VISHAL A | 26d overdue |
| 18999958 | Natural Gas Engines with Fuel Quality Determination | MANLEY, SHERMAN D | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18999958 | Natural Gas Engines with Fuel Quality Determination | MANLEY, SHERMAN D | 3747 | §102 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18651207 | Shaft Seal Assembly | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
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