Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Watts Regulator Co. has 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 5 pending actions are spread across 5 distinct art units and 5 distinct examiners. CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that every current prosecution matter for the company is being handled by a different examiner in a unique art unit.
The involvement of 5 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units indicates a highly decentralized prosecution environment. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of each of the 5 pending office actions will depend on the specific standards of the individual examiner, such as CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE. There is no concentration of cases that would allow for a unified negotiation strategy with a single department. Instead, the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics portfolio requires a multi-faceted approach that accounts for the diverse examination cultures present across all 5 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 1 | 78.6% | +22.7% |
| PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 1 | 86.4% | +8.6% |
| DEROSE, VOLVICK | 1 | 90.0% | +11.0% |
| GIBSON, RANDY W | 1 | 75.8% | +22.2% |
| ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1 | 40.0% | +40.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934121 | FLUID DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING THE SAME | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | — |
| 18927185 | PLUMBING CONTROL DEVICE | DEROSE, VOLVICK | — |
| 18731036 | PIPING APPARATUS FOR STRAINING AND METHOD FOR SAME | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19006677 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING BACKFLOW PREVENTER CONDITION | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 70d |
| 18927185 | PLUMBING CONTROL DEVICE | DEROSE, VOLVICK | — |
| 18819752 | SENSOR CLAMP FOR A WATER SUPPLY MONITORING SYSTEM | GIBSON, RANDY W | — |
| 18731036 | PIPING APPARATUS FOR STRAINING AND METHOD FOR SAME | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2176 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19006677 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING BACKFLOW PREVENTER CONDITION | CAHILL, JESSICA MARIE | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18934121 | FLUID DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING THE SAME | PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18927185 | PLUMBING CONTROL DEVICE | DEROSE, VOLVICK | 2176 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18819752 | SENSOR CLAMP FOR A WATER SUPPLY MONITORING SYSTEM | GIBSON, RANDY W | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18731036 | PIPING APPARATUS FOR STRAINING AND METHOD FOR SAME | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWatts Regulator Co. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Jessica Marie Cahill has the most, with 1 of Watts Regulator Co.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
