Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
John Crane Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners and are located within distinct art units. This indicates that the company's pending workload is split across multiple examination groups. The use of multiple art units for 3 pending office actions suggests that the company's technology is being reviewed under different technical classifications.
PATEL, VISHAL A is the busiest examiner, holding 2 busiest examiner pending actions. These actions are part of the total 3 pending office actions. The remaining action is handled by the other distinct examiner. With 3 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners, the company faces a concentrated prosecution environment. The company must manage its strategy across multiple examiners, with PATEL, VISHAL A overseeing the majority of the current pending matters.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 | 2 | 59.0% | +22.5% |
| ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | 1 | 84.2% | +9.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19010915 | DRIVE RING FOR ROTARY SHAFT EQUIPMENT SEALS | ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18523413 | MECHANICAL SEAL WITH A SEAL FACE HAVING CHANNELS | PATEL, VISHAL A | 1d overdue |
| 19252753 | SEALING RINGS | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 2 |
| 3745 | 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 |
| 19010915 | DRIVE RING FOR ROTARY SHAFT EQUIPMENT SEALS | ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
| 18523413 | MECHANICAL SEAL WITH A SEAL FACE HAVING CHANNELS | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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