Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Schneider Electric Systems Usa Inc.

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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 (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due later (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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only2 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
86% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PHANTANA ANGKOOL, DAVID 1 86.4% +14.0%
BROWN, MICHAEL J 1 88.0% +9.0%
SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 1 67.1% +37.3%
ALHIJA, SAIF A 1 72.3% +18.6%
KAPOOR, DEVAN 1 10.0% +16.7%
ROTARU, OCTAVIAN 1 28.1% +38.6%
NGUYEN, PHONG H 1 70.7% +20.2%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18511453 VIRTUAL PLANT OPERATOR PHANTANA ANGKOOL, DAVID 15d overdue
18511560 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR OPERATING A PLANT BROWN, MICHAEL J 75d

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17731561 KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR ENGINEERING AUTOMATION KAPOOR, DEVAN 32d overdue
17566136 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING OPERATOR VARIATION ANALYSIS FOR STEADY STATE OPERATION OF CONTINUOUS OR BATCH WISE CONTINUOUS PROCESSES ROTARU, OCTAVIAN

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
17731561 KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR ENGINEERING AUTOMATION KAPOOR, DEVAN 32d overdue
18511453 VIRTUAL PLANT OPERATOR PHANTANA ANGKOOL, DAVID 15d overdue
17557894 SECURE LOADING AND EXECUTION OF USER-DEFINED CONTENT ON EMBEDDED REMOTE TERMINAL UNIT CONTROLLER NGUYEN, PHONG H 9d
18376881 CONFIGURATION SOURCED DIRECT FROM ETHERNET ADVANCED PHYSICAL LAYER FIELD DEVICE SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 19d
17796070 WELL SITE EDGE ANALYTICS ALHIJA, SAIF A 22d
17566136 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING OPERATOR VARIATION ANALYSIS FOR STEADY STATE OPERATION OF CONTINUOUS OR BATCH WISE CONTINUOUS PROCESSES ROTARU, OCTAVIAN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2172 1
2115 1
2459 1
2186 1
2126 1
3624 1
2156 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18511453 VIRTUAL PLANT OPERATOR PHANTANA ANGKOOL, DAVID 2172 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2023
18511560 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR OPERATING A PLANT BROWN, MICHAEL J 2115 §102 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Nov 16, 2023
18376881 CONFIGURATION SOURCED DIRECT FROM ETHERNET ADVANCED PHYSICAL LAYER FIELD DEVICE SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 2459 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Oct 05, 2023
17796070 WELL SITE EDGE ANALYTICS ALHIJA, SAIF A 2186 §102 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jul 28, 2022
17731561 KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR ENGINEERING AUTOMATION KAPOOR, DEVAN 2126 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2022
17566136 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING OPERATOR VARIATION ANALYSIS FOR STEADY STATE OPERATION OF CONTINUOUS OR BATCH WISE CONTINUOUS PROCESSES ROTARU, OCTAVIAN 3624 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2021
17557894 SECURE LOADING AND EXECUTION OF USER-DEFINED CONTENT ON EMBEDDED REMOTE TERMINAL UNIT CONTROLLER NGUYEN, PHONG H 2156 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 21, 2021

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