Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
John Bean Technologies Corporation has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 examiners across 2 art units, showing a distributed but bounded examination structure.
SAVANI, AVINASH A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should align technical terminology and disclosure support across the matters while tailoring claim arguments to the assigned examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAVANI, AVINASH A | 1 | 74.7% | +20.7% |
| SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 1 | 56.3% | +37.4% |
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729686 | SPIRAL CONVEYOR THERMAL PROCESSING SYSTEM | SAVANI, AVINASH A | — |
| 18554304 | OVEN VENTILATION FOR CONVECTIVE COOKING AND DRYING OF FOOD | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | — |
| 18326366 | HYPODERMIC INJECTION NEEDLE AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING THE SAME | ISKRA, JOSEPH 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729686 | SPIRAL CONVEYOR THERMAL PROCESSING SYSTEM | SAVANI, AVINASH A | — |
| 18554304 | OVEN VENTILATION FOR CONVECTIVE COOKING AND DRYING OF FOOD | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | — |
| 18326366 | HYPODERMIC INJECTION NEEDLE AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING THE SAME | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729686 | SPIRAL CONVEYOR THERMAL PROCESSING SYSTEM | SAVANI, AVINASH A | 1792 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18554304 | OVEN VENTILATION FOR CONVECTIVE COOKING AND DRYING OF FOOD | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18326366 | HYPODERMIC INJECTION NEEDLE AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS INCLUDING THE SAME | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialJohn Bean Technologies Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Avinash A Savani has the most, with 1 of John Bean Technologies Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
