Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rust-Oleum Corporation operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 2 pending office actions. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a diversified approach even with a small number of active cases. Each pending action is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit.
ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing exactly 1 case. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the 2 pending actions cover different technical classifications within the broader engineering sector. This 1 busiest examiner pending action for ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND shows that the workload is perfectly distributed. Practitioners can see that the company's current prosecution is not concentrated under a single individual or art unit, as the 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units provide a broad base for the active matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.6% | +34.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18830878 | FLUID DISPENSING DEVICE | ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND | — |
| 16270768 | Wide Mouth Spray Actuator | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16270768 | Wide Mouth Spray Actuator | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18830878 | FLUID DISPENSING DEVICE | ETZEL, ALAN RAYMOND | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 16270768 | Wide Mouth Spray Actuator | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2019 |
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