Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Scott Technologies Inc. has 7 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, indicating that at least an examiner is handling multiple applications. The portfolio is active across 3 distinct art units, showing some technical variety within the communications sector.
TRAN, THANG DUC is the busiest examiner for the company, with 2 pending office actions. This examiner manages a larger share of the portfolio than the other examiners, who each handle a single action. This concentration suggests that TRAN, THANG DUC is a primary point of contact for the company's current filings. Managing the 7 actions across 6 distinct examiners requires the company to track multiple examiner styles while focusing on the 2 matters assigned to the busiest official. This distribution across 3 art units ensures that the company's communications-related intellectual property is being reviewed by a diverse group of experts.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, THANG DUC | 2 | 76.2% | +23.2% |
| MILLER, DANIEL A | 1 | 34.3% | +57.8% |
| CAMPERO MIRAMONTE, MARIO RICARDO | 1 | 66.7% | +50.0% |
| ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | 1 | 48.3% | +53.6% |
| ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 1 | 64.0% | +37.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18523767 | BEACON ASSISTED EMERGENCY PERSONNEL LOCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | CAMPERO MIRAMONTE, MARIO RICARDO | 50d overdue |
| 16639019 | Articulating Support Assembly For A Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 29d |
| 19147606 | RESCUE DEVICE AND RESCUE METHOD | TRAN, THANG DUC | — |
| 18832902 | PRESSURE REDUCER FOR SCBA | MILLER, DANIEL 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18523767 | BEACON ASSISTED EMERGENCY PERSONNEL LOCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | CAMPERO MIRAMONTE, MARIO RICARDO | 50d overdue |
| 16639019 | Articulating Support Assembly For A Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 29d |
| 19147639 | RESCUE DEVICE AND RESCUE METHOD | TRAN, THANG DUC | — |
| 19147606 | RESCUE DEVICE AND RESCUE METHOD | TRAN, THANG DUC | — |
| 18832902 | PRESSURE REDUCER FOR SCBA | MILLER, DANIEL A | — |
| 18156523 | VALVE FOR RESPIRATORY MASK | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 2 |
| 3785 | 2 |
| 2649 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19147639 | RESCUE DEVICE AND RESCUE METHOD | TRAN, THANG DUC | 2686 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19147606 | RESCUE DEVICE AND RESCUE METHOD | TRAN, THANG DUC | 2686 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 18832902 | PRESSURE REDUCER FOR SCBA | MILLER, DANIEL A | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18523767 | BEACON ASSISTED EMERGENCY PERSONNEL LOCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | CAMPERO MIRAMONTE, MARIO RICARDO | 2649 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18156523 | VALVE FOR RESPIRATORY MASK | ZIEGLER, MATTHEW D | 3785 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 16639019 | Articulating Support Assembly For A Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus | ELLABIB, MAAP AHMED | 3785 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Feb 13, 2020 |
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