Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Senninger Irrigation Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being processed in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current innovation. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, meaning all current patent office feedback is concentrated under 1 individual. The busiest examiner for the company is CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL, who is managing 1 pending office action.
This individual's workload represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution. Because there is only 1 pending action and 1 examiner, the company's current legal strategy is focused on this single interaction. There is no data indicating involvement in other art units or with other examiners at this stage. This concentration allows for a response strategy tailored specifically to the identified examiner. The alignment of 1 pending action with 1 examiner and 1 art unit indicates a highly streamlined prosecution environment within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 1 | 53.1% | +41.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18768578 | SERVICEABLE SPRINKLER WITH NUTATING DISTRIBUTION PLATE AND ASYMMETRICAL WATER CHANNELS | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18768578 | SERVICEABLE SPRINKLER WITH NUTATING DISTRIBUTION PLATE AND ASYMMETRICAL WATER CHANNELS | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 3752 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSenninger Irrigation Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven Michael Cernoch has the most, with 1 of Senninger Irrigation Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
