Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

VERTIV CORPORATION

13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
3
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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%)
12
Medium (92%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (77%)
§102 only2 (15%)
§112 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
15% of docket
1
Information Tech
8% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
5
Semiconductors
38% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
38% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 1 75.3% +26.3%
DINH, BACH T 1 55.2% +32.1%
INGE, JOSEPH N 1 75.0% +24.5%
TAN, RICHARD 1 79.3% +23.2%
MCNICHOLS, ERET C 1 74.7% -16.0%
MILLNER, MONICA E 1 77.6% +22.0%
TRAN, BINH BACH THANH 1 80.5% +12.2%
MATEY, MICHAEL A 1 79.7% +18.3%
PATEL, KAMINI B 1 85.7% +9.9%
TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN 1 82.6% +7.6%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18655998 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING DATA CENTER EQUIPMENT PATEL, KAMINI B 22d
18672357 BATTERY CABINET WITH BLIND MATE CONNECTORS TRAN, BINH BACH THANH 27d
18409754 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TWO-PHASE COLD PLATE COOLING TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN 55d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18917243 CABLE CARRIER FOR A POWER SYSTEM MILLNER, MONICA E 45d overdue
19225625 OPTIMIZED AIRFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR REDUNDANT FANS LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 16d overdue
19098664 DATA CENTER CHILLING SYSTEM WITH WASTE HEAT RECYCLING DINH, BACH T 12d
19079693 UNIVERSAL BIDIRECTIONAL POWER CONVERTER WITH AGNOSTIC DIRECT CURRENT ENERGY STORAGE OR ENERGY SOURCE TAN, RICHARD 14d
18661559 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING HEAT DISSIPATION MATEY, MICHAEL A 14d
18672357 BATTERY CABINET WITH BLIND MATE CONNECTORS TRAN, BINH BACH THANH 27d
19095367 MEDIUM AND LOW VOLTAGE POWER CENTER INGE, JOSEPH N 55d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3632 2
2835 2
3763 2
3711 1
1726 1
2836 1
2849 1
2847 1
2114 1
1721 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19225625 OPTIMIZED AIRFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR REDUNDANT FANS LEGENDRE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN 3711 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2025
19098664 DATA CENTER CHILLING SYSTEM WITH WASTE HEAT RECYCLING DINH, BACH T 1726 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Apr 02, 2025
19095367 MEDIUM AND LOW VOLTAGE POWER CENTER INGE, JOSEPH N 2836 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Mar 31, 2025
19079693 UNIVERSAL BIDIRECTIONAL POWER CONVERTER WITH AGNOSTIC DIRECT CURRENT ENERGY STORAGE OR ENERGY SOURCE TAN, RICHARD 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Mar 14, 2025
18947456 HANGER ASSEMBLY MCNICHOLS, ERET C 3632 §102 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Nov 14, 2024
18917243 CABLE CARRIER FOR A POWER SYSTEM MILLNER, MONICA E 3632 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2024
18672357 BATTERY CABINET WITH BLIND MATE CONNECTORS TRAN, BINH BACH THANH 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 23, 2024
18661559 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING HEAT DISSIPATION MATEY, MICHAEL A 2835 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 10, 2024
18655998 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING DATA CENTER EQUIPMENT PATEL, KAMINI B 2114 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 06, 2024
18409754 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TWO-PHASE COLD PLATE COOLING TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN 3763 §103 Final Rejection 55d Pending Jan 10, 2024
18531757 Semi-automatic portable solar controller DAM, DUSTIN Q 1721 §112 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2023
18481981 HEAT EXCHANGER FREEZE PROTECTION CIRIC, LJILJANA V 3763 §102 Non-Final OA 112d overdue Pending Oct 05, 2023
18072934 HEATSINK CONNECTED WITH A COMMON OUTPUT AND MULTIPLE SOURCES NGO, STEVEN 2835 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2022

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