Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Potter Electric Signal Company LLC has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating separate examination paths.
HICKS, ANGELISA is associated with 1 pending matter. Counsel should tailor each response to its own record while checking for consistent treatment of shared device concepts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HICKS, ANGELISA | 1 | 63.4% | +22.0% |
| HO, ANNA THI | 1 | 39.3% | +34.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19073781 | AUTOMATIC AUXILIARY DRAIN FOR A FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
| 18133928 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC REMOTE TESTING OF A FIRE SYSTEM PRESSURE SWITCH | HO, ANNA THI | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19073781 | AUTOMATIC AUXILIARY DRAIN FOR A FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
| 18133928 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC REMOTE TESTING OF A FIRE SYSTEM PRESSURE SWITCH | HO, ANNA THI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19073781 | AUTOMATIC AUXILIARY DRAIN FOR A FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM | HICKS, ANGELISA | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18133928 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC REMOTE TESTING OF A FIRE SYSTEM PRESSURE SWITCH | HO, ANNA THI | 3752 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPotter Electric Signal Company LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Angelisa Hicks has the most, with 1 of Potter Electric Signal Company LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
