Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 7 (88%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 2 | 63.4% | +41.4% |
| SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 2 | 81.8% | +15.5% |
| THOMAS, BINU | 1 | 72.5% | +26.4% |
| WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 1 | 78.6% | +69.1% |
| FORD, RENE D | 1 | 80.0% | +22.5% |
| GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 1 | 67.0% | +34.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738816 | ROBOTIC SPRAY HEAD AND CONTROL SYSTEM | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 26d |
| 18649047 | SPRAY TIPS HAVING PRE-USE MANUFACTURED WEAR-MIMICKING SURFACE | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 34d |
| 18440268 | FLUID SPRAY TIPS HAVING SECURING ELEMENTS FORMED IN THE FLUID SPRAY TIP BODY AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | FORD, RENE D | 63d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17872474 | SCREW DRIVEN PISTON PUMP | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 113d overdue |
| 18652939 | ROBOTIC FLUID SPRAYING CONTROL SYSTEM WITH SPRAY TIP WEAR COMPENSATION | THOMAS, BINU | 10d overdue |
| 18651800 | AIRLESS FLUID SPRAYING SYSTEM WITH FLUID FILTER DIAGNOSTICS | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 8d |
| 18738816 | ROBOTIC SPRAY HEAD AND CONTROL SYSTEM | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 26d |
| 18649047 | SPRAY TIPS HAVING PRE-USE MANUFACTURED WEAR-MIMICKING SURFACE | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 34d |
| 18392415 | SPRAY TIP DIAGNOSTICS | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 42d |
| 18905793 | PISTON LIMIT SENSING FOR FLUID APPLICATION | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 56d |
| 18440268 | FLUID SPRAY TIPS HAVING SECURING ELEMENTS FORMED IN THE FLUID SPRAY TIP BODY AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | FORD, RENE D | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 3 |
| 3746 | 2 |
| 3741 | 2 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18905793 | PISTON LIMIT SENSING FOR FLUID APPLICATION | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18738816 | ROBOTIC SPRAY HEAD AND CONTROL SYSTEM | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18652939 | ROBOTIC FLUID SPRAYING CONTROL SYSTEM WITH SPRAY TIP WEAR COMPENSATION | THOMAS, BINU | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18651800 | AIRLESS FLUID SPRAYING SYSTEM WITH FLUID FILTER DIAGNOSTICS | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18649047 | SPRAY TIPS HAVING PRE-USE MANUFACTURED WEAR-MIMICKING SURFACE | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18440268 | FLUID SPRAY TIPS HAVING SECURING ELEMENTS FORMED IN THE FLUID SPRAY TIP BODY AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | FORD, RENE D | 3741 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18392415 | SPRAY TIP DIAGNOSTICS | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 17872474 | SCREW DRIVEN PISTON PUMP | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 113d overdue | Pending | Jul 25, 2022 |
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