Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vulcan Industrial Holdings LLC is currently managing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending application is under the review of a different official. The prosecution activity is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating a relatively narrow but multi-faceted technical focus.
The busiest examiner, MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R, is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This reflects the even distribution of the 4 pending office actions across the 4 distinct examiners. There is no concentration of work with any single individual, which suggests that the company's patent outcomes are subject to a variety of examination perspectives across the 3 distinct art units involved.
Practitioners managing these 4 pending office actions must account for the specific requirements of the 3 distinct art units. Because there are 4 distinct examiners, each office action response should be developed independently to address individual examiner concerns. The 1 busiest examiner pending action confirms that the current workload is spread thinly across the patent office's examination corps, requiring a versatile prosecution approach.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 1 | 78.2% | +21.0% |
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.0% | +22.5% |
| BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 1 | 78.2% | +8.4% |
| KEASEL, ERIC S | 1 | 79.7% | +14.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19326300 | HIGH PERFORMANCE SEALING ASSEMBLY | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | — |
| 19218880 | PACKING ASSEMBLY WITH THREADED SLEEVE FOR INTERACTION WITH AN INSTALLATION TOOL | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| 18742012 | COVER ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH-POWER PUMPS AND RELATED SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS | BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | — |
| 18539014 | SYSTEMS, ASSEMBLIES, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS PROVIDING ENHANCED ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN VALVE BODIES AND VALVE SEALS | KEASEL, ERIC S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19326300 | HIGH PERFORMANCE SEALING ASSEMBLY | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | — |
| 19218880 | PACKING ASSEMBLY WITH THREADED SLEEVE FOR INTERACTION WITH AN INSTALLATION TOOL | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| 18539014 | SYSTEMS, ASSEMBLIES, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS PROVIDING ENHANCED ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN VALVE BODIES AND VALVE SEALS | KEASEL, ERIC S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 2 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19326300 | HIGH PERFORMANCE SEALING ASSEMBLY | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 3746 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2025 |
| 19218880 | PACKING ASSEMBLY WITH THREADED SLEEVE FOR INTERACTION WITH AN INSTALLATION TOOL | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 18742012 | COVER ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH-POWER PUMPS AND RELATED SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS | BERTHEAUD, PETER JOHN | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18539014 | SYSTEMS, ASSEMBLIES, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS PROVIDING ENHANCED ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN VALVE BODIES AND VALVE SEALS | KEASEL, ERIC S | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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