Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Norton (Waterford) Limited

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DOWNEY, JOHN R 1 59.8% +23.9%
VO, TU A 1 60.8% +58.0%
RUDDIE, ELLIOT S 1 65.5% +42.5%
DAHER, KIRA B 1 38.7% +55.3%
PHILIPS, BRADLEY H 1 67.1% +30.6%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18409231 DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE WITH ELECTRONICS VO, TU A 146d overdue
18019408 INHALER SYSTEM PHILIPS, BRADLEY H 72d overdue
18277011 INHALER SYSTEM DAHER, KIRA B 13d
18751627 INHALER SYSTEM DOWNEY, JOHN R 34d
18448570 Dry Powder Medicament Inhaler RUDDIE, ELLIOT S 40d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3785 3
3792 1
3799 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18751627 INHALER SYSTEM DOWNEY, JOHN R 3792 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 24, 2024
18409231 DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE WITH ELECTRONICS VO, TU A 3785 Other Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Jan 10, 2024
18448570 Dry Powder Medicament Inhaler RUDDIE, ELLIOT S 3785 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Aug 11, 2023
18277011 INHALER SYSTEM DAHER, KIRA B 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Aug 11, 2023
18019408 INHALER SYSTEM PHILIPS, BRADLEY H 3799 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2023

Managing Norton (Waterford) Limited's Patent Portfolio?

IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.

Start Free Trial

Sign in with your work email

Enter your email to receive a magic link. No password needed.

Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are not accepted.

Free tier: 3 strategy analyses per month