Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhejiang Sanhua Automotive Components Co. Ltd. currently manages 10 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating a fragmented prosecution landscape where each examiner handles exactly one pending matter. This distribution suggests that the company does not currently face a concentration of workload with any single individual.
JOSEPH S HERRMANN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. For practitioners, this means that strategies for overcoming rejections must be tailored to the specific preferences of 10 different examiners rather than a centralized group. The presence of 10 pending actions across 5 art units requires a broad understanding of various mechanical engineering sub-disciplines. This decentralized profile requires the company to manage 10 separate relationships at the patent office simultaneously. This variety in examiners and art units suggests that the company must maintain a flexible prosecution strategy to address the different standards across 5 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 1 | 63.7% | +40.4% |
| KASTURE, DNYANESH G | 1 | 48.1% | +26.5% |
| JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 1 | 80.1% | +17.3% |
| ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | 1 | 84.2% | +9.6% |
| WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | 1 | 77.3% | +30.6% |
| REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 78.9% | +19.7% |
| JONES, GORDON A | 1 | 60.7% | +38.2% |
| BABAA, NAEL N | 1 | 77.0% | +3.8% |
| MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | 1 | 52.8% | +18.3% |
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.1% | +14.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843323 | CONTROL VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 14d |
| 18560686 | REFRIGERATING SYSTEM, EXPANSION VALVE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING REFRIGERATING SYSTEM | BABAA, NAEL N | 41d |
| 18860036 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICE AND ELECTRIC PUMP DEVICE | WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | 56d |
| 18995285 | SHAFT ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRIC VALVE | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | — |
| 18879285 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND FLUID CONTROL SYSTEM | ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | — |
| 18710627 | FLUID MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | JONES, GORDON A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843323 | CONTROL VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 14d |
| 18860036 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICE AND ELECTRIC PUMP DEVICE | WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | 56d |
| 19149514 | INTEGRATED COMPONENT | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | — |
| 19120775 | ELECTRIC PUMP | KASTURE, DNYANESH G | — |
| 18995285 | SHAFT ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRIC VALVE | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | — |
| 18710627 | FLUID MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | JONES, GORDON A | — |
| 18282569 | FLUID MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND HEAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | — |
| 18275004 | ELECTRIC VALVE | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 3 |
| 3763 | 3 |
| 3746 | 2 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19149514 | INTEGRATED COMPONENT | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 3746 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19120775 | ELECTRIC PUMP | KASTURE, DNYANESH G | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2025 |
| 18995285 | SHAFT ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRIC VALVE | JELLETT, MATTHEW WILLIAM | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18879285 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND FLUID CONTROL SYSTEM | ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18860036 | FLUID CONTROL DEVICE AND ELECTRIC PUMP DEVICE | WOLCOTT, BRIAN P | 3711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18843323 | CONTROL VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18710627 | FLUID MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | JONES, GORDON A | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18560686 | REFRIGERATING SYSTEM, EXPANSION VALVE ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING REFRIGERATING SYSTEM | BABAA, NAEL N | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18282569 | FLUID MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND HEAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | MYERS, KEITH STANLEY | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18275004 | ELECTRIC VALVE | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2023 |
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