Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Rain Bird Corporation

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (67%)
§102 only1 (17%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
4
Information Tech
67% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SURYAWANSHI, SURESH 1 88.4% +12.5%
LU, HUA 1 69.1% +28.0%
GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 1 67.0% +34.8%
DUNN, DARRIN D 1 75.4% +23.7%
LEE, CHEE-CHONG 1 64.0% +52.9%
LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L 1 66.8% +10.5%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18604248 SENSOR-BASED INTERRUPTION OF AN IRRIGATION CONTROLLER SURYAWANSHI, SURESH 35d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18389038 Irrigation Device And Conversion Indicator For Irrigation Device GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 5d overdue
18513371 IRRIGATION CONTROL SYSTEMS AND USER INTERFACES LU, HUA 12d
18194154 Flow Adjustment Valve For Sprinkler LEE, CHEE-CHONG 26d
13151269 SENSOR DEVICE FOR INTERRUPTING IRRIGATION LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L 26d
18227846 IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS DUNN, DARRIN D 29d
18604248 SENSOR-BASED INTERRUPTION OF AN IRRIGATION CONTROLLER SURYAWANSHI, SURESH 35d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3752 2
2116 1
2118 1
2117 1
2119 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18604248 SENSOR-BASED INTERRUPTION OF AN IRRIGATION CONTROLLER SURYAWANSHI, SURESH 2116 §112 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Mar 13, 2024
18513371 IRRIGATION CONTROL SYSTEMS AND USER INTERFACES LU, HUA 2118 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18389038 Irrigation Device And Conversion Indicator For Irrigation Device GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 3752 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18227846 IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS DUNN, DARRIN D 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jul 28, 2023
18194154 Flow Adjustment Valve For Sprinkler LEE, CHEE-CHONG 3752 §102 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 31, 2023
13151269 SENSOR DEVICE FOR INTERRUPTING IRRIGATION LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L 2119 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jun 01, 2011

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