Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pittway Sarl is currently navigating 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The distribution of these matters is highly decentralized, as the 7 pending actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners. This arrangement ensures that the outcome of the portfolio is not overly dependent on the discretion of a single examiner, as each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Practitioners should prepare for 7 independent prosecution tracks that may not share a common examiner perspective.
The portfolio's reach extends across 5 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical classifications for its pending applications. While the number of examiners is 7, the lower count of 5 art units suggests that multiple examiners are operating within the same specialized groups. Legal teams should monitor whether these art units share common internal policies that might affect prosecution across different applications. This overlap provides a small opportunity for cross-application consistency within an otherwise fragmented portfolio.
WADDY, JONATHAN J is designated as the busiest examiner for this company, yet this individual holds only 1 pending office action. This figure represents a minimal concentration of work, as the busiest examiner handles the same volume as every other examiner involved in the portfolio. The lack of a dominant examiner suggests a balanced prosecution environment where no single person controls a significant portion of the company's active patent pipeline. Strategy should focus on the distinct individuals rather than a central point of contact.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (29%) |
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WADDY, JONATHAN J | 1 | 71.8% | +36.6% |
| GRAY, PAUL J | 1 | 78.5% | +10.7% |
| CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 1 | 70.8% | +16.5% |
| ABDULLAHI, SELMAN MOHAMED | 1 | — | — |
| SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 1 | 74.3% | +27.9% |
| OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 1 | 62.1% | +9.5% |
| PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 1 | 63.8% | +20.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866368 | GAS-FLOW ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A GAS BURNER APPLIANCE AND GAS BURNER APPLIANCE | CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 45d overdue |
| 18553060 | Separating Pressure Transducer for Measuring Pressure in a Polluted Environment | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 37d overdue |
| 19109465 | Systems and Methods for Measuring Throttle Position | WADDY, JONATHAN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18548666 | PARTIALLY-PREMIXED GAS BURNER APPLIANCE | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 46d overdue |
| 18866368 | GAS-FLOW ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A GAS BURNER APPLIANCE AND GAS BURNER APPLIANCE | CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 45d overdue |
| 18873150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ERROR COMPENSATION IN PULSE-WIDTH MODULATED SYSTEMS | GRAY, PAUL J | 47d |
| 19109465 | Systems and Methods for Measuring Throttle Position | WADDY, JONATHAN J | — |
| 18702868 | METHOD FOR PRESSURE MONITORING A PRESSURE-DEPENDENT PROCESS AND PRESSURE SENSOR | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 3 |
| 2199 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109465 | Systems and Methods for Measuring Throttle Position | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18873150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ERROR COMPENSATION IN PULSE-WIDTH MODULATED SYSTEMS | GRAY, PAUL J | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 47d | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18866368 | GAS-FLOW ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A GAS BURNER APPLIANCE AND GAS BURNER APPLIANCE | CHAUDRY, ATIF H | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18833662 | SYSTEMS CONFIGURED WITH A NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | ABDULLAHI, SELMAN MOHAMED | 2199 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18702868 | METHOD FOR PRESSURE MONITORING A PRESSURE-DEPENDENT PROCESS AND PRESSURE SENSOR | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 3762 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18553060 | Separating Pressure Transducer for Measuring Pressure in a Polluted Environment | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18548666 | PARTIALLY-PREMIXED GAS BURNER APPLIANCE | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 3799 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPittway Sarl has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Jonathan J Waddy has the most, with 1 of Pittway Sarl's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
