Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLC has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units and involve 4 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that the company's mechanical innovations are being reviewed by a diverse group of patent office personnel. Managing 4 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires a coordinated approach to ensure consistency in technical arguments across different examination groups.
DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is evenly spread across the 4 distinct examiners. Practitioners must manage multiple examination styles simultaneously to advance this portfolio. The fact that 4 distinct examiners are involved for only 4 pending office actions suggests that no two applications are currently being handled by the same individual, increasing the variety of examiner perspectives the company must address.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L | 1 | 85.5% | +5.4% |
| LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW | 1 | 64.9% | +51.8% |
| PHAM, LEDA T | 1 | 74.8% | +11.5% |
| LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 1 | 69.3% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724046 | AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION OF VIBRATION SENSOR BASED ON MOUNTING METHOD | DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18421247 | MOTOR DRIVE UNIT | PHAM, LEDA T | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17788333 | PNEUMATIC PARALLEL GRIPPER | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 56d |
| 18683787 | DISCHARGE HEADS WITH BENT SUPPORTING LEGS FOR VERTICAL PUMPS | LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW | — |
| 18421247 | MOTOR DRIVE UNIT | PHAM, LEDA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18724046 | AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION OF VIBRATION SENSOR BASED ON MOUNTING METHOD | DAVIS-HOLLINGTON, OCTAVIA L | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18683787 | DISCHARGE HEADS WITH BENT SUPPORTING LEGS FOR VERTICAL PUMPS | LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18421247 | MOTOR DRIVE UNIT | PHAM, LEDA T | 2834 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 17788333 | PNEUMATIC PARALLEL GRIPPER | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
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