Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
W.c. Bradley Co. maintains a portfolio with 6 pending office actions, all located within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 6 distinct examiners, which suggests a range of individual perspectives influencing the prosecution process. Despite the number of examiners, the portfolio is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, providing some consistency in the underlying examination frameworks and procedural norms that the company must navigate.
LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 6 pending office actions are evenly distributed among the 6 distinct examiners. This distribution requires practitioners to adapt to multiple examination styles simultaneously. The focus on 2 distinct art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field indicates that while examiner variety is high, the procedural environment remains relatively narrow. This structure suggests that the company is pursuing multiple innovations within a specific technical domain, each subject to the scrutiny of a different examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 1 | 57.1% | +56.9% |
| LAU, JASON | 1 | 53.7% | +15.6% |
| MCCORMICK, CHRISTOPHER JORDAN | 1 | — | — |
| DANG, KET D | 1 | 61.5% | +37.9% |
| CAMPBELL, THOR S | 1 | 75.0% | +1.0% |
| EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 1 | 64.1% | +19.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18199738 | ELECTRIC GRILL WITH IMPROVED CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 22d |
| 18675986 | GRAVITY FED SMOKER | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | — |
| 18538660 | INDUCTION GRIDDLES | MCCORMICK, CHRISTOPHER JORDAN | — |
| 18525114 | INDUCTION COILS FOR COOKING SURFACES | DANG, KET D | — |
| 18376924 | INDUCTION GRILL | CAMPBELL, THOR 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656034 | COMBUSTION CHAMBER FOR PELLET GRILLS | LAU, JASON | 182d overdue |
| 18199738 | ELECTRIC GRILL WITH IMPROVED CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 22d |
| 18675986 | GRAVITY FED SMOKER | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | — |
| 18525114 | INDUCTION COILS FOR COOKING SURFACES | DANG, KET D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18675986 | GRAVITY FED SMOKER | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18656034 | COMBUSTION CHAMBER FOR PELLET GRILLS | LAU, JASON | 3762 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 182d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18538660 | INDUCTION GRIDDLES | MCCORMICK, CHRISTOPHER JORDAN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18525114 | INDUCTION COILS FOR COOKING SURFACES | DANG, KET D | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18376924 | INDUCTION GRILL | CAMPBELL, THOR S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18199738 | ELECTRIC GRILL WITH IMPROVED CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3761 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
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