Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Valveworks LLC has 1 pending office action currently active in its patent portfolio. This workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow scope of current engagement with the patent office. The concentration of the portfolio within a single art unit suggests that the company is focusing its intellectual property efforts on a specific technical area without branching into diverse fields.
The busiest examiner identified is ENGLISH, PETER C, who is managing the 1 busiest examiner pending action. With only one examiner involved, the company's prosecution progress is currently subject to the specific procedural requirements and timelines of this individual. This arrangement simplifies the management of the portfolio but makes the success of the pending application highly dependent on a single examiner's interpretation of the claims.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENGLISH, PETER C | 1 | 32.8% | +27.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17900723 | Multi-Part Valve Assembly | ENGLISH, PETER C | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17900723 | Multi-Part Valve Assembly | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Aug 31, 2022 |
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