Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Latham Pool Products Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, DEERY, ERIN LEAH, is currently managing 1 pending office action.
The portfolio shows a one-to-one ratio between pending office actions and examiners, with 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners. Similarly, the 2 distinct art units match the number of pending actions, indicating that each application is being prosecuted in a different specialized environment. This requires the company to navigate the specific standards of two separate art units simultaneously.
DEERY, ERIN LEAH, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, shares the workload equally with the other distinct examiner. This distribution means that the 2 pending office actions are subject to independent review processes. For a portfolio of this size, the diversity in art units and examiners provides a varied look at how the company's mechanical engineering innovations are perceived by the patent office.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 1 | 58.3% | +49.1% |
| XIAO, YUQING | 1 | 60.3% | +28.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18418857 | POOL COVER ATTACHMENT FEATURES AND METHODS FOR FRAMELESS POOL COVERS | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 19d |
| 18537348 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC TRACKING FOR CUSTOMIZING SWIMMING POOL COMPONENTS | XIAO, YUQING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18418857 | POOL COVER ATTACHMENT FEATURES AND METHODS FOR FRAMELESS POOL COVERS | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 3754 | §102 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18537348 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC TRACKING FOR CUSTOMIZING SWIMMING POOL COMPONENTS | XIAO, YUQING | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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