Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Marmon Foodservice Technologies Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but split technical scope. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, which matches the total number of pending actions. This distribution suggests that each pending matter is receiving a unique review from a different individual.
DAVID J WALCZAK is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending action. Because the 4 pending actions are spread among 4 distinct examiners, the company must address 4 different examination styles. However, the concentration within 2 distinct art units suggests that the legal arguments may share common technical or procedural foundations relevant to those specific groups. Managing 4 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that balances individual examiner preferences with the broader standards of the units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (40%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALCZAK, DAVID J | 1 | 74.1% | +17.7% |
| SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 1 | 57.3% | +22.3% |
| LEFF, STEVEN N | 1 | 41.3% | +7.9% |
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 1 | 59.2% | +32.5% |
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18415403 | HOLDING PAN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | LEFF, STEVEN N | 26d overdue |
| 18629012 | FILL LOGIC FOR FROZEN CARBONATED BEVERAGE MACHINE | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 2d overdue |
| 18472680 | TRANSITION STATE TOASTING CONTROL | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537399 | ICE DISPENSERS | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 78d overdue |
| 18629012 | FILL LOGIC FOR FROZEN CARBONATED BEVERAGE MACHINE | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 2d overdue |
| 19039308 | CARBONATOR AND COLD-PLATE SYSTEM | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — |
| 18472680 | TRANSITION STATE TOASTING CONTROL | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039308 | CARBONATOR AND COLD-PLATE SYSTEM | WALCZAK, DAVID J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18629012 | FILL LOGIC FOR FROZEN CARBONATED BEVERAGE MACHINE | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18415403 | HOLDING PAN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | LEFF, STEVEN N | 1792 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18537399 | ICE DISPENSERS | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18472680 | TRANSITION STATE TOASTING CONTROL | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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