Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lindsay Corporation holds 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that certain examiners handle multiple matters. Specifically, BARRERA, JUAN C is the busiest examiner with 2 pending actions.
The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting the technical focus is concentrated within specific groups. With 5 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the company faces a consolidated examination environment where the number of actions exceeds the number of examiners. The presence of 2 pending actions with BARRERA, JUAN C highlights a specific point of focus within the distinct art units. This structure requires managing relationships with a limited group of examiners in the semiconductor and optics fields. The company must balance its strategy across the 4 distinct examiners to ensure consistent results.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARRERA, JUAN C | 2 | 63.3% | +35.0% |
| BOECKMANN, JASON J | 1 | 49.1% | +28.4% |
| FORTICH, ALVARO E | 1 | 85.9% | +14.4% |
| ERDMAN, CHAD G | 1 | 80.1% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643667 | IRRIGATION SYSTEM COMPUTING DEVICE FOR PROCESSING GEOSPATIAL DATA | ERDMAN, CHAD G | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775996 | MECHANIZED IRRIGATION MACHINE THAT USES ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS TO FIND AN OPEN SWITCH OR WIRE | FORTICH, ALVARO E | 1d overdue |
| 19196856 | ALIGNMENT GUIDE FOR AN ALIGNMENT SYSTEM OF A MOBILE IRRIGATION SYSTEM | BOECKMANN, JASON J | — |
| 18935115 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING IRRIGATION SYSTEM SCHEDULING | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
| 17937486 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING TO MULTIPLE CONTROLLERS ON A MECHANIZED IRRIGATION MACHINE | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18775996 | MECHANIZED IRRIGATION MACHINE THAT USES ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS TO FIND AN OPEN SWITCH OR WIRE | FORTICH, ALVARO E | 1d overdue |
| 19196856 | ALIGNMENT GUIDE FOR AN ALIGNMENT SYSTEM OF A MOBILE IRRIGATION SYSTEM | BOECKMANN, JASON J | — |
| 18935115 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING IRRIGATION SYSTEM SCHEDULING | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
| 18643667 | IRRIGATION SYSTEM COMPUTING DEVICE FOR PROCESSING GEOSPATIAL DATA | ERDMAN, CHAD G | — |
| 17937486 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING TO MULTIPLE CONTROLLERS ON A MECHANIZED IRRIGATION MACHINE | BARRERA, JUAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19196856 | ALIGNMENT GUIDE FOR AN ALIGNMENT SYSTEM OF A MOBILE IRRIGATION SYSTEM | BOECKMANN, JASON J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 18935115 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING IRRIGATION SYSTEM SCHEDULING | BARRERA, JUAN C | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18775996 | MECHANIZED IRRIGATION MACHINE THAT USES ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS TO FIND AN OPEN SWITCH OR WIRE | FORTICH, ALVARO E | 2858 | §101 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18643667 | IRRIGATION SYSTEM COMPUTING DEVICE FOR PROCESSING GEOSPATIAL DATA | ERDMAN, CHAD G | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 17937486 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING TO MULTIPLE CONTROLLERS ON A MECHANIZED IRRIGATION MACHINE | BARRERA, JUAN C | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
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