Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jbt Marel Corporation currently oversees 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These cases are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's mechanical and medical innovations fall into several different classification categories. The involvement of 3 art units suggests that the prosecution team must adapt to the specific procedural nuances of multiple USPTO divisions.
The prosecution involves 7 distinct examiners, matching the total number of 7 pending office actions. This one-to-one ratio between examiners and pending cases means that no single examiner has a disproportionate influence over the company's current patent applications. This distribution reduces the risk that a single difficult examiner could stall a large portion of the portfolio's progress.
CADEAU, WEDNEL is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently under review. Since the busiest examiner only handles 1 of the 7 pending office actions, the workload is evenly dispersed across the 7 distinct examiners. This decentralized structure requires the company to maintain a broad prosecution strategy that addresses the unique perspectives of seven different USPTO officials simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (71%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CADEAU, WEDNEL | 1 | 71.8% | +19.2% |
| JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 1 | 86.5% | +11.1% |
| PARSLEY, DAVID J | 1 | 54.0% | +28.7% |
| NORTON, JOHN J | 1 | 67.5% | +28.5% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 73.8% | +37.0% |
| KHLOK, BONITA | 1 | 49.1% | +48.3% |
| STULII, VERA | 1 | 32.8% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18930758 | RACK STACKING SYSTEM | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18910988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECES | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 5d overdue |
| 18824704 | VARIABLE BI-DIRECTIONAL AIRFLOW SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A THERMAL PROCESSING MACHINE | NORTON, JOHN 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18910988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECES | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 5d overdue |
| 17858677 | FULL NEEDLE PENETRATION ON CONVEYOR BELT INJECTOR | KHLOK, BONITA | 34d |
| 18300129 | PORK BELLY PROCESSING | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 84d |
| 19056148 | TECHNIQUES FOR NON-CONTACT THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENT IN FOOD PROCESSING SYSTEMS | CADEAU, WEDNEL | — |
| 18930758 | RACK STACKING SYSTEM | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | — |
| 18824704 | VARIABLE BI-DIRECTIONAL AIRFLOW SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A THERMAL PROCESSING MACHINE | NORTON, JOHN J | — |
| 16887075 | HIGH VISCOSITY BRINE FOR WHOLE POULTRY | STULII, VERA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 3 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19056148 | TECHNIQUES FOR NON-CONTACT THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENT IN FOOD PROCESSING SYSTEMS | CADEAU, WEDNEL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18930758 | RACK STACKING SYSTEM | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18910988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORKPIECES | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 3643 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18824704 | VARIABLE BI-DIRECTIONAL AIRFLOW SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A THERMAL PROCESSING MACHINE | NORTON, JOHN J | 3761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18300129 | PORK BELLY PROCESSING | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 17858677 | FULL NEEDLE PENETRATION ON CONVEYOR BELT INJECTOR | KHLOK, BONITA | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 06, 2022 |
| 16887075 | HIGH VISCOSITY BRINE FOR WHOLE POULTRY | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2020 |
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