Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Norton (Waterford) Limited currently has 9 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 9 actions are assigned to 9 distinct examiners, meaning no single examiner is handling more than a case. The prosecution activity is distributed across 4 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's medical device and mechanical filings are focused within a few specialized examination groups at the patent office.
SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B is the busiest examiner, though he is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This reflects the total dispersion of the 9 pending actions among the 9 distinct examiners. The 4 distinct art units suggest that the company's innovations are being reviewed by a small number of specialized groups, which may allow for some consistency in prosecution strategy at the art unit level. Practitioners should focus on the 4 distinct art units to find common ground for the company's pending cases. The busiest examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 5 (62%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | 1 | 58.0% | +38.8% |
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 59.7% | +23.7% |
| GREIG, THOMAS W | 1 | 74.7% | +23.9% |
| RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | 1 | 48.6% | +48.5% |
| VO, TU A | 1 | 60.6% | +58.9% |
| JANG, JAEICK | 1 | 66.7% | +52.6% |
| RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 1 | 66.3% | +42.7% |
| KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 1 | 23.4% | +31.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751627 | INHALER SYSTEM | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 34d |
| 18448570 | Dry Powder Medicament Inhaler | RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 40d |
| 19470753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | — |
| 18740754 | INHALER | GREIG, THOMAS W | — |
| 18645057 | ELECTRONIC MODULE FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | — |
| 18558126 | INHALER SYSTEM | JANG, JAEICK | — |
| 17505821 | Inhaler System | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409231 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE WITH ELECTRONICS | VO, TU A | 146d overdue |
| 18751627 | INHALER SYSTEM | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 34d |
| 18448570 | Dry Powder Medicament Inhaler | RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 40d |
| 19470753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | — |
| 18740754 | INHALER | GREIG, THOMAS W | — |
| 18645057 | ELECTRONIC MODULE FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | — |
| 18558126 | INHALER SYSTEM | JANG, JAEICK | — |
| 17505821 | Inhaler System | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 3 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19470753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | 3686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 18751627 | INHALER SYSTEM | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18740754 | INHALER | GREIG, THOMAS W | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18645057 | ELECTRONIC MODULE FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18409231 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE WITH ELECTRONICS | VO, TU A | 3785 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18558126 | INHALER SYSTEM | JANG, JAEICK | 3785 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18448570 | Dry Powder Medicament Inhaler | RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 3785 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 17505821 | Inhaler System | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 3683 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2021 |
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