Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Reinke Manufacturing Company Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These 2 pending office actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners. This distribution results in an even workload where each examiner manages one matter, indicating that the current prosecution is not concentrated under a single individual.
The workload is focused within 1 distinct art unit. This count of 1 distinct art unit is lower than the 2 distinct examiners, suggesting a specific technical scope for the pending matters. DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. is the busiest examiner for the company, with a busiest examiner pending count of 1. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the count for the other examiner involved.
Practitioners should note that the 2 pending office actions are being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, which simplifies the departmental landscape. However, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners means two different individual perspectives are being applied to the portfolio. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that no single examiner has a dominant role in the current workload.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 1 | 65.9% | +35.4% |
| NORTON, JENNIFER L | 1 | 49.8% | +2.5% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037979 | IRRIGATION SYSTEM HAVING FLEXIBLE JOINTS AND IMPROVED END SEGMENTS FOR REDUCING WATER DISTRIBUTION DEAD ZONES | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2117 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037979 | IRRIGATION SYSTEM HAVING FLEXIBLE JOINTS AND IMPROVED END SEGMENTS FOR REDUCING WATER DISTRIBUTION DEAD ZONES | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18940628 | DYNAMIC FLUID APPLICATION CONTROLLER | NORTON, JENNIFER L | 2117 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
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