Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Triton Systems Inc. has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, suggesting a varied technological footprint within the sector. The portfolio involves 5 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 5 pending office actions is currently being reviewed by a different individual.
DUKE, EMMANUEL E is the busiest examiner, though they only manage 1 pending office action. Because each of the 5 distinct examiners holds exactly 1 of the 5 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. This lack of concentration across 4 distinct art units means the company must navigate 5 separate examiner-specific prosecution tracks simultaneously. DUKE, EMMANUEL E is one of the 5 distinct examiners involved.
The presence of 4 distinct art units indicates that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are being evaluated by multiple administrative groups. With 5 distinct examiners providing feedback, the company must be prepared for a variety of prosecution styles. This decentralized structure for the 5 pending office actions ensures that the portfolio's progress is not dependent on the review of any single individual.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, MICHELLE J | 1 | 39.8% | +60.2% |
| DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 1 | 68.7% | +27.6% |
| NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 1 | 58.5% | +41.2% |
| HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 1 | 72.0% | +30.2% |
| LAWSON, STACY N | 1 | 62.2% | +51.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18642401 | PORTABLE TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED BAG WITH SECURELY MOUNTED UNPOWERED COOLING DEVICE | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 114d overdue |
| 17838025 | GROUP ANCHOR SYSTEM, SUBSEA INSTALLATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR USING AND INSTALLING SAME | LAWSON, STACY N | 28d |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18642401 | PORTABLE TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED BAG WITH SECURELY MOUNTED UNPOWERED COOLING DEVICE | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 114d overdue |
| 17838025 | GROUP ANCHOR SYSTEM, SUBSEA INSTALLATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR USING AND INSTALLING SAME | LAWSON, STACY N | 28d |
| 18176938 | GARMENT-BASED SPLINT SYSTEM | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 54d |
| 19045129 | EARPLUG | LEE, MICHELLE J | — |
| 18176966 | ORTHOSIS SYSTEM | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 3 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19045129 | EARPLUG | LEE, MICHELLE J | 3786 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 18642401 | PORTABLE TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED BAG WITH SECURELY MOUNTED UNPOWERED COOLING DEVICE | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 114d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2024 |
| 18176966 | ORTHOSIS SYSTEM | NELSON, KERI JESSICA | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18176938 | GARMENT-BASED SPLINT SYSTEM | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 17838025 | GROUP ANCHOR SYSTEM, SUBSEA INSTALLATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR USING AND INSTALLING SAME | LAWSON, STACY N | 3678 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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