Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Oilgear Company currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical variety in the pending matters. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, which means each pending action is being reviewed by a different person. This distribution requires the company to manage various examiner relationships simultaneously.
ROBERT K ARUNDALE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This workload is consistent across the examiners, as each handles an active matter. The distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that while the technology area is consistent, the specific classifications of the applications may differ slightly. Practitioners should be prepared for varied examiner perspectives within the same broad technology area. Managing the 3 pending office actions across the different units requires a coordinated strategy. The presence of ROBERT K ARUNDALE as the busiest examiner means that his specific interpretation will influence the outcome for 1 of the active applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 1 | 75.7% | +24.0% |
| ROST, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.6% | +19.9% |
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 70.0% | +9.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17729889 | GASKET PLATE | BYRD, EUGENE G | 72d overdue |
| 18435712 | MULTI-PLATE MANIFOLD | ROST, ANDREW J | 34d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435712 | MULTI-PLATE MANIFOLD | ROST, ANDREW J | 34d |
| 19198881 | HIGH STABILITY REGULATOR | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198881 | HIGH STABILITY REGULATOR | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 18435712 | MULTI-PLATE MANIFOLD | ROST, ANDREW J | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 17729889 | GASKET PLATE | BYRD, EUGENE G | 3675 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
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