Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company is currently navigating 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 7 pending office actions are being reviewed by 7 distinct examiners, creating a situation where no two pending actions are assigned to the same person. This distribution across 7 distinct examiners requires the applicant to adapt to seven different sets of examination habits and preferences. These examiners are spread across 4 distinct art units, which introduces additional variety in the procedural environment for the portfolio.
The busiest examiner, CAILLOUET, CHRISTOPHER C, is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. In this portfolio, the workload is perfectly distributed, as each of the 7 distinct examiners holds exactly one of the 7 pending office actions. Managing 4 distinct art units alongside 7 distinct examiners suggests a complex prosecution landscape for Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company. Practitioners must coordinate responses across 4 distinct art units while addressing the specific concerns raised by 7 distinct examiners in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This high level of examiner diversity across 4 distinct art units requires a highly organized and multifaceted legal strategy to manage the 7 pending office actions effectively.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAILLOUET, CHRISTOPHER C | 1 | 67.7% | +14.8% |
| SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 1 | 67.4% | +32.9% |
| MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN | 1 | 67.3% | +13.4% |
| DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | 1 | 60.8% | +28.9% |
| MILLS JR., JOE E | 1 | 72.4% | +15.5% |
| PAIK, SANG YEOP | 1 | 65.5% | +16.3% |
| HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | 1 | — | — |
| KHLOK, BONITA | 1 | 49.1% | +48.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17736185 | METAL HEATER ASSEMBLY WITH EMBEDDED RESISTIVE HEATERS | MILLS JR., JOE E | 132d overdue |
| 17989747 | METHOD OF GENERATING A DIGITAL TWIN OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES | MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN | 5d overdue |
| 18804194 | SOLID-STATE BONDING METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHUCKS AND HEATERS | CAILLOUET, CHRISTOPHER C | — |
| 18442379 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRIC HEATER USING CONTROL ON ENERGY | SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | — |
| 17497280 | SHAPED ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTIONS FOR MULTI-LAYER HEATER CONSTRUCTIONS | HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17736185 | METAL HEATER ASSEMBLY WITH EMBEDDED RESISTIVE HEATERS | MILLS JR., JOE E | 132d overdue |
| 17836307 | COLD CONDUIT INSULATION DEVICE | DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | 36d overdue |
| 17324848 | PASSIVE AND ACTIVE CALIBRATION METHODS FOR A RESISTIVE HEATER | KHLOK, BONITA | 9d overdue |
| 17989747 | METHOD OF GENERATING A DIGITAL TWIN OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES | MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN | 5d overdue |
| 18804194 | SOLID-STATE BONDING METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHUCKS AND HEATERS | CAILLOUET, CHRISTOPHER C | — |
| 18442379 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRIC HEATER USING CONTROL ON ENERGY | SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | — |
| 17686818 | THERMAL DYNAMIC RESPONSE SENSING SYSTEMS FOR HEATERS | PAIK, SANG YEOP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 3 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18804194 | SOLID-STATE BONDING METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHUCKS AND HEATERS | CAILLOUET, CHRISTOPHER C | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18442379 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRIC HEATER USING CONTROL ON ENERGY | SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL | 2116 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 17989747 | METHOD OF GENERATING A DIGITAL TWIN OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES | MOLL, NITHYA JANAKIRAMAN | 2189 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 17836307 | COLD CONDUIT INSULATION DEVICE | DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2022 |
| 17736185 | METAL HEATER ASSEMBLY WITH EMBEDDED RESISTIVE HEATERS | MILLS JR., JOE E | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 132d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2022 |
| 17686818 | THERMAL DYNAMIC RESPONSE SENSING SYSTEMS FOR HEATERS | PAIK, SANG YEOP | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
| 17497280 | SHAPED ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTIONS FOR MULTI-LAYER HEATER CONSTRUCTIONS | HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | 3700 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2021 |
| 17324848 | PASSIVE AND ACTIVE CALIBRATION METHODS FOR A RESISTIVE HEATER | KHLOK, BONITA | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2021 |
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