Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Stewart & Stevenson LLC

11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
2
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 7 days (2)

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%)
9
Medium (82%)
2
Easy (18%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (82%)
§112 only2 (18%)

Industry Mix

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

5
Life Sciences
45% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
55% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CARY, KELSEY E 1 75.0% +24.9%
PICON-FELICIANO, RUBEN 1 68.7% +12.7%
CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET 1 57.7% +40.2%
CULLEN, SEAN P 1 68.9% +28.8%
PEIRIS, TELGE SHAVINDA 1
SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD 1 52.6% +39.2%
NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V 1 55.0% +21.6%
GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES 1 79.5% +20.3%
ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM 1 72.7% +2.9%
TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. 1 65.1% +28.2%

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18143363 BATTERY PROTECTIVE THERMAL ENCLOSURE CULLEN, SEAN P 138d overdue
17981683 INTEGRATED FRACTURING UNIT TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. 126d overdue
18224678 ADAPTABLE INLINE FLUID HEATING SYSTEM PICON-FELICIANO, RUBEN 97d overdue
18124696 INTEGRATED FIRE SUPPRESSION IN MOBILE LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ARRAY SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD 97d overdue
18184057 MOBILE ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND INTEGRATED SKID BASE NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V 86d overdue
18103824 NATURAL GAS FLUID HEATING PRE-START SYSTEM GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES 49d overdue
18948831 LUBRICATING OIL SEQUENCE VALVE HEATING SYSTEM CARY, KELSEY E 36d overdue
18197557 POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET 6d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1725 2
1724 2
3762 2
3753 1
3747 1
3634 1
3752 1
1774 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18948831 LUBRICATING OIL SEQUENCE VALVE HEATING SYSTEM CARY, KELSEY E 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Nov 15, 2024
18224678 ADAPTABLE INLINE FLUID HEATING SYSTEM PICON-FELICIANO, RUBEN 3747 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2023
18197557 POWER GENERATION SYSTEM CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET 3634 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending May 15, 2023
18143363 BATTERY PROTECTIVE THERMAL ENCLOSURE CULLEN, SEAN P 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 138d overdue Pending May 04, 2023
18129960 LITHIUM-ION BATTERY MODULE STRAP ASSEMBLY PEIRIS, TELGE SHAVINDA 1724 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2023
18124696 INTEGRATED FIRE SUPPRESSION IN MOBILE LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ARRAY SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD 3752 §112 Final Rejection 97d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2023
18184057 MOBILE ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM AND INTEGRATED SKID BASE NEDIALKOVA, LILIA V 1724 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Mar 15, 2023
18103824 NATURAL GAS FLUID HEATING PRE-START SYSTEM GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES 3762 §103 Final Rejection 49d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
18073766 BATTERY MODULE FOR LOCOMOTIVE ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 02, 2022
17981683 INTEGRATED FRACTURING UNIT TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. 3762 §112 Final Rejection 126d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17387291 INTEGRATED BLENDER AND FRICTION REDUCER SYSTEM MCCARTY, PATRICK M 1774 §103 Final Rejection 104d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2021

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