Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 4 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 5 (83%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POINT, RUFUS C | 2 | 74.1% | +18.4% |
| POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 2 | 55.0% | +23.0% |
| CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 1 | 80.0% | +40.0% |
| ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | 1 | 76.0% | +11.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18469152 | IoT NETWORK WITH BACNET COMMUNICATION FOR VARIOUS SENSORS IN A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (BMS) PLATFORM | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 75d |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18301955 | UNIVERSAL GATEWAY SOLUTION WITH BI-DIRECTIONAL DATA TRANSFER, MANAGEMENT, AND CONTROL FROM MULTIPROTOCOL SENSORS AND END-DEVICES FOR VARIOUS IOT NETWORKS | ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | 2d overdue |
| 17566985 | ROOF DRAIN | POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 14d |
| 18927555 | WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ANOMALY DETECTION | POINT, RUFUS C | 20d |
| 18927507 | WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE NEEDS | POINT, RUFUS C | 33d |
| 17937722 | PROMENADE DRAIN | POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 41d |
| 18469152 | IoT NETWORK WITH BACNET COMMUNICATION FOR VARIOUS SENSORS IN A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (BMS) PLATFORM | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 75d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Zurn Elkay | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 2 |
| 1776 | 2 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 2474 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18927555 | WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ANOMALY DETECTION | Zurn Water, LLC | POINT, RUFUS C | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18927507 | WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE NEEDS | Zurn Water, LLC | POINT, RUFUS C | 2689 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18469152 | IoT NETWORK WITH BACNET COMMUNICATION FOR VARIOUS SENSORS IN A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (BMS) PLATFORM | Zurn Industries, LLC | CAIN, ZACHARY ANDREW | 2116 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18301955 | UNIVERSAL GATEWAY SOLUTION WITH BI-DIRECTIONAL DATA TRANSFER, MANAGEMENT, AND CONTROL FROM MULTIPROTOCOL SENSORS AND END-DEVICES FOR VARIOUS IOT NETWORKS | Zurn Industries, LLC | ZHANG, ZHENSHENG | 2474 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
| 17937722 | PROMENADE DRAIN | Zurn Industries, LLC | POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
| 17566985 | ROOF DRAIN | Zurn Industries, LLC | POPOVICS, ROBERT J | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Dec 31, 2021 |
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