Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pentair Inc. has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 9 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, showing substantial distribution with some concentration at both examiner and art-unit levels.
GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner is the clearest point for coordinated review, but the remaining actions still require responses calibrated to their individual assignments.
The portfolio supports a two-level management approach: examine the related matters before the busiest examiner together, then use art-unit groupings to identify recurring claim-treatment issues. Counsel should avoid assuming that one response position will transfer across all open actions.
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 | 4 (44%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 2 | 72.3% | +37.8% |
| SPIES, BRADLEY R | 1 | 74.1% | +19.1% |
| MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1 | 66.1% | +51.3% |
| CONNOLLY, MARK A | 1 | 82.1% | +9.1% |
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.7% | +1.1% |
| PATEL, CHANDNI | 1 | — | — |
| WILSON, GREGORY A | 1 | 81.9% | +6.9% |
| GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1 | 38.5% | +51.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18397346 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETECTING FAILURE OF HEAT EXCHANGERS | PLUMB, NIGEL H | — |
| 18394119 | HEATER CONDENSATE pH CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | WILSON, GREGORY A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18397429 | SWIMMING POOL BATHER LOAD DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | CONNOLLY, MARK A | 6d |
| 18544141 | POOL CHEMICAL DISPENSING SYSTEM | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 76d |
| 18394876 | AUTO-CONFIGURATION OF AQUATIC EQUIPMENT | PATEL, CHANDNI | — |
| 17934954 | HYBRID FILTER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342675 | CHEMICAL CONTROLLER SYSTEM AND METHOD | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 8d overdue |
| 18544141 | POOL CHEMICAL DISPENSING SYSTEM | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 76d |
| 18936822 | HYBRID FILTER AND CHEMICAL CLEANING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | SPIES, BRADLEY R | — |
| 18400135 | INTEGRATED POOL PAD EQUIPMENT | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | — |
| 17934954 | HYBRID FILTER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 3 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18936822 | HYBRID FILTER AND CHEMICAL CLEANING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | SPIES, BRADLEY R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18400135 | INTEGRATED POOL PAD EQUIPMENT | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18397429 | SWIMMING POOL BATHER LOAD DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | CONNOLLY, MARK A | 2115 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18397346 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETECTING FAILURE OF HEAT EXCHANGERS | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18394876 | AUTO-CONFIGURATION OF AQUATIC EQUIPMENT | PATEL, CHANDNI | 2118 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18394119 | HEATER CONDENSATE pH CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | WILSON, GREGORY A | 3762 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18544141 | POOL CHEMICAL DISPENSING SYSTEM | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18342675 | CHEMICAL CONTROLLER SYSTEM AND METHOD | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 17934954 | HYBRID FILTER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1779 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPentair Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
Richard C Gurtowski has the most, with 2 of Pentair Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
