Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
RINNAI Corporation currently faces 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating a diverse range of review perspectives despite the workload being concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This structure suggests that while the technical subject matter remains consistent across the portfolio, the company must navigate the varying styles of multiple examiners simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BARGERO, JOHN E, who is currently managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This examiner handles 2 of the 4 pending office actions, making their individual examination trends particularly significant for the company's overall success in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. With 3 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution strategy must account for both the centralized oversight of 1 distinct art unit and the specific feedback provided by BARGERO, JOHN E on the majority of the pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARGERO, JOHN E | 2 | 55.3% | +30.6% |
| KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 1 | 45.0% | +14.6% |
| DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 1 | 48.9% | +42.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319625 | COMBUSTION APPARATUS | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 18d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18319625 | COMBUSTION APPARATUS | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 18d overdue |
| 18051672 | COMBUSTION DEVICE | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 9d |
| 18180154 | WATER HEATING DEVICE | BARGERO, JOHN E | 22d |
| 18409962 | HEATING SYSTEM | BARGERO, JOHN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18409962 | HEATING SYSTEM | BARGERO, JOHN E | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18319625 | COMBUSTION APPARATUS | KOSANOVIC, HELENA | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18180154 | WATER HEATING DEVICE | BARGERO, JOHN E | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
| 18051672 | COMBUSTION DEVICE | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 01, 2022 |
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