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Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rescue Air Systems Inc. currently has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This level of distribution indicates that multiple examiners are reviewing the company's applications simultaneously. The presence of 4 distinct art units shows that the company's technology is being evaluated across several different specialized groups. Practitioners managing this portfolio must coordinate across 5 examiners to ensure consistency in prosecution arguments.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is FAULKNER, RYAN L, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 5 pending office actions are distributed such that no 1 examiner is managing more than 1 case. This variety requires a strategy that accounts for the potentially different examination standards across the 4 art units and 5 examiners involved. Managing 5 pending office actions across these divisions requires careful administrative tracking. Practitioners can focus on the specific tendencies of FAULKNER, RYAN L for the 1 action under their review while addressing the remaining 4 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAULKNER, RYAN L | 1 | 67.5% | +17.2% |
| SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | 1 | 73.0% | +20.3% |
| LA, ANH V | 1 | 84.6% | +13.8% |
| FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 1 | 75.2% | +2.0% |
| WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 1 | 58.0% | +34.8% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18131369 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AIR PARAMETER BASED AUTOMATIC BYPASSING OF A SOURCE OF BREATHABLE AIR IN A FIREFIGHTER AIR REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED WITHIN A STRUCTURE | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 4d overdue |
| 18211597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EFFICIENT COUPLING OF AN AIR BOTTLE TO AN EMERGENCY AIR FILL STATION WITHIN A SAFETY SYSTEM OF A STRUCTURE | SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | 13d |
| 18215404 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM OF A BLOCK SUBASSEMBLY INTEGRATED WITH ROUTING AND PIPING ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH BREATHABLE AIR SUPPLIED TO A COMPONENT OF A FIREFIGHTER AIR REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM | FAULKNER, RYAN L | — |
| 18131869 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM OF SENSOR-BASED BREATHABLE AIR QUALITY MONITORING IN A FIREFIGHTER AIR REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18131369 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AIR PARAMETER BASED AUTOMATIC BYPASSING OF A SOURCE OF BREATHABLE AIR IN A FIREFIGHTER AIR REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED WITHIN A STRUCTURE | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 4d overdue |
| 18211597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EFFICIENT COUPLING OF AN AIR BOTTLE TO AN EMERGENCY AIR FILL STATION WITHIN A SAFETY SYSTEM OF A STRUCTURE | SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | 13d |
| 18215404 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM OF A BLOCK SUBASSEMBLY INTEGRATED WITH ROUTING AND PIPING ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH BREATHABLE AIR SUPPLIED TO A COMPONENT OF A FIREFIGHTER AIR REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM | FAULKNER, RYAN L | — |
| 18134046 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF LOCATING AN EMERGENCY AIR FILL STATION OF A FIREFIGHTER AIR REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED IN A STRUCTURE FOR ACCESS OF BREATHABLE AIR IN LOW VISIBILITY | LA, ANH V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18215404 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM OF A BLOCK SUBASSEMBLY INTEGRATED WITH ROUTING AND PIPING ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH BREATHABLE AIR SUPPLIED TO A COMPONENT OF A FIREFIGHTER AIR REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18211597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EFFICIENT COUPLING OF AN AIR BOTTLE TO AN EMERGENCY AIR FILL STATION WITHIN A SAFETY SYSTEM OF A STRUCTURE | SHRIEVES, STEPHANIE ALEXANDRA | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18134046 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF LOCATING AN EMERGENCY AIR FILL STATION OF A FIREFIGHTER AIR REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED IN A STRUCTURE FOR ACCESS OF BREATHABLE AIR IN LOW VISIBILITY | LA, ANH V | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 18131869 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM OF SENSOR-BASED BREATHABLE AIR QUALITY MONITORING IN A FIREFIGHTER AIR REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18131369 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AIR PARAMETER BASED AUTOMATIC BYPASSING OF A SOURCE OF BREATHABLE AIR IN A FIREFIGHTER AIR REPLENISHMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED WITHIN A STRUCTURE | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
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