Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
John Crane UK Limited currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. WESTALL, ALEC STONE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because there are multiple examiners for the active actions, each matter is being reviewed by a different individual, though they are clustered within the same technical groups.
The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates some technical variety within the Chemistry & Materials portfolio. With 1 pending office action assigned to WESTALL, ALEC STONE, the company's prosecution strategy must account for the specific preferences of this examiner while also managing the other active matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTALL, ALEC STONE | 1 | — | — |
| GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1 | 72.6% | +15.7% |
| LEE, GILBERT Y | 1 | 78.7% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012742 | MECHANICAL SEAL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY OF A MECHANICAL SEAL | LEE, GILBERT Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415975 | FILTER ELEMENT ARRANGEMENT WITHIN A FILTER SYSTEM | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | — |
| 18012742 | MECHANICAL SEAL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY OF A MECHANICAL SEAL | LEE, GILBERT Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18631609 | FILTER MONITORING | WESTALL, ALEC STONE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18415975 | FILTER ELEMENT ARRANGEMENT WITHIN A FILTER SYSTEM | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18012742 | MECHANICAL SEAL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY OF A MECHANICAL SEAL | LEE, GILBERT Y | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2023 |
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