Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pentair Inc. maintains a portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 8 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 8 distinct examiners, showing a high degree of examiner diversity. This distribution is further reflected in the 7 distinct art units involved, indicating that the company's technical filings span several specialized examination groups within the patent office. The involvement of 7 distinct art units highlights the breadth of the Chemistry & Materials applications being pursued by the company.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S., who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 8 distinct examiners, each reviewer is currently managing a case. This distribution ensures that the workload is not concentrated under a single examiner. With 7 distinct art units, the company must manage a variety of prosecution styles across its active cases under the oversight of MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1 | 65.8% | +51.9% |
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.8% | +1.0% |
| CONNOLLY, MARK A | 1 | 82.0% | +9.2% |
| WILSON, GREGORY A | 1 | 81.8% | +6.9% |
| PATEL, CHANDNI | 1 | — | — |
| KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 63.3% | +21.5% |
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1 | 72.3% | +37.7% |
| GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | 1 | 36.0% | +46.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542290 | LAMINAR DEVICE TO CREATE WATER FEATURE/S | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 9d overdue |
| 18397429 | SWIMMING POOL BATHER LOAD DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | CONNOLLY, MARK A | 6d |
| 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542290 | LAMINAR DEVICE TO CREATE WATER FEATURE/S | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 9d overdue |
| 18342675 | CHEMICAL CONTROLLER SYSTEM AND METHOD | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 8d overdue |
| 18400135 | INTEGRATED POOL PAD EQUIPMENT | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | — |
| 17934954 | HYBRID FILTER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | GEISBERT, WILLIAM ADDISON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 2 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18400135 | INTEGRATED POOL PAD EQUIPMENT | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18397346 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETECTING FAILURE OF HEAT EXCHANGERS | PLUMB, NIGEL H | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18397429 | SWIMMING POOL BATHER LOAD DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | CONNOLLY, MARK A | 2115 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18394119 | HEATER CONDENSATE pH CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD | WILSON, GREGORY A | 3762 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18394876 | AUTO-CONFIGURATION OF AQUATIC EQUIPMENT | PATEL, CHANDNI | 2118 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18542290 | LAMINAR DEVICE TO CREATE WATER FEATURE/S | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 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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