Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
John Crane Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both of these active matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the current pending workload is entirely concentrated within a single administrative segment of the patent office. The focus on a single art unit suggests that the company's current innovations are limited to a specific mechanical or system-level niche.
PATEL, VISHAL A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 2 pending office actions. As there are no other active matters, this examiner is responsible for the entire active portfolio. The lack of examiner or art unit diversity means that the company's immediate prosecution results are dependent on the interpretations of a single official. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific historical rulings and preferences of PATEL, VISHAL A to navigate these pending cases successfully.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.1% | +22.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19252753 | SEALING RINGS | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19252753 | SEALING RINGS | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19252753 | SEALING RINGS | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialJohn Crane Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Vishal A Patel has the most, with 1 of John Crane Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
