Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Trane Technologies plc

16 pending office actions • 7 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 59 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
8
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)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%)
15
Medium (94%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (75%)
§102 only3 (19%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
19% of docket
2
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
9
Mechanical / Eng
56% of docket
2
Business / Other
12% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BUSE, MARK KENNETH 1 77.3% +9.0%
AHVAZI, BIJAN 1 63.3% +47.2%
CIRIC, LJILJANA V 1 77.1% +22.3%
TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL 1 17.1% +59.8%
TEITELBAUM, DAVID J 1 68.9% +24.7%
BABAA, NAEL N 1 77.1% +3.2%
COMINGS, DANIEL C 1 63.4% +37.3%
TRPISOVSKY, JOSEPH F 1 69.9% +20.1%
DUKE, EMMANUEL E 1 68.7% +27.5%
BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 1 75.4% +13.0%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18065851 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SANITIZING AIR CONDITIONED BY A CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL 19d overdue

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
18356593 LOW GWP REFRIGERANT COMPOSITIONS AHVAZI, BIJAN 25d overdue
18065851 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SANITIZING AIR CONDITIONED BY A CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL 19d overdue
18758534 HEAT EXCHANGER ASSEMBLIES FOR CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS DUKE, EMMANUEL E 3d overdue
18308205 HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME CIRIC, LJILJANA V 14d
19005374 COOLING-HEATING UNITS WITH PRIORITIZED LOADING, SYSTEM THEREOF, AND METHOD THEREOF TEITELBAUM, DAVID J
18952527 AUTOCASCADE LIQUID-VAPOR SEPARATOR WITH INTEGRAL BYPASS COMINGS, DANIEL C
18923337 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LUBRICANT QUALITY CONTROL OF AN HVACR SYSTEM TRPISOVSKY, JOSEPH F
18677486 METHOD TO MONITOR AND DETECT NETWORK ANOMALIES IN BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND PROVIDE A RESPONSIVE DEFENSE BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3763 7
3654 2
1763 1
1758 1
2439 1
2117 1
1798 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19006648 COMPRESSOR WITH MULTIPLE LUBRICANT SUMPS BUSE, MARK KENNETH 3654 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 31, 2024
18356593 LOW GWP REFRIGERANT COMPOSITIONS AHVAZI, BIJAN 1763 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2023
18308205 HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME CIRIC, LJILJANA V 3763 §102 Final Rejection 14d Pending Apr 27, 2023
18065851 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SANITIZING AIR CONDITIONED BY A CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL 1758 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
19005374 COOLING-HEATING UNITS WITH PRIORITIZED LOADING, SYSTEM THEREOF, AND METHOD THEREOF TEITELBAUM, DAVID J §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 30, 2024
18975496 MULTI-FEED CHILLER-HEATER PRODUCTION MODULE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME BABAA, NAEL N §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 10, 2024
18952527 AUTOCASCADE LIQUID-VAPOR SEPARATOR WITH INTEGRAL BYPASS COMINGS, DANIEL C 3763 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 19, 2024
18923337 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LUBRICANT QUALITY CONTROL OF AN HVACR SYSTEM TRPISOVSKY, JOSEPH F 3763 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 22, 2024
18758534 HEAT EXCHANGER ASSEMBLIES FOR CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS DUKE, EMMANUEL E 3763 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2024
18677486 METHOD TO MONITOR AND DETECT NETWORK ANOMALIES IN BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND PROVIDE A RESPONSIVE DEFENSE BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 2439 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 29, 2024
18584161 MOTOR MOVEMENT IN AN AIR HANDLER OF A CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM ADAMS, NATHANIEL L 3654 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 22, 2024
18392875 CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM MINIMUM COMPRESSOR SPEED BASED ON REFRIGERANT LINE DIAMETER MYERS, KEITH STANLEY 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18527098 BUFFER TANK ASSEMBLIES FOR CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEMS WEILAND, HANS R. 3763 §102 Final Rejection 70d Pending Dec 01, 2023
18347290 ENERGY CONTROL AND PREDICTIVE MODEL OF BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2117 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jul 05, 2023
18326741 FLIP-ABLE VAV PIPING PACKAGE TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN 3763 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending May 31, 2023
17658498 Aerosol Purifier for HVAC System KWAK, DEAN P 1798 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 08, 2022

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