Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
This profile covers Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and records 8 pending office actions. Its career record includes 12721 applications, which places the current matters within a broad prosecution portfolio. The technology area may require handling both mechanical claim details and electronically implemented commercial systems.
The resolved allowance rate is 73.14%, and the average is 3.51 office actions per allowance. Those measures describe resolved cases rather than the current docket. Practitioners can use them to frame expectations about examination persistence while using the pending count for active matter management.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCFARLAND, KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN | 2 | 59.9% | +12.5% |
| LOPEZ, ERICK I | 1 | 53.4% | +29.7% |
| NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 1 | 79.2% | +13.3% |
| PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | 1 | 50.0% | +21.4% |
| CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 1 | 57.4% | +40.2% |
| PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | 1 | 67.5% | +30.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17640699 | Filling Element for Filling up a Space Between at Least One Compressed Gas Bottle of a Breathing Apparatus and a Carrier Plate | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | 61d |
| 18189582 | Case or Cradle for a Fall Arrest Device | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
| 16599908 | Harness With Adjustable Belt Strap | MCFARLAND, KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18584323 | Systems and Methods for Tracking Lifeline Payout and Retraction | PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | 9d |
| 17640699 | Filling Element for Filling up a Space Between at Least One Compressed Gas Bottle of a Breathing Apparatus and a Carrier Plate | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | 61d |
| 19415939 | Safety Helmet | LOPEZ, ERICK I | — |
| 18822947 | Safety Device for Providing Output to an Individual Associated with a Hazardous Environment | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | — |
| 18189582 | Case or Cradle for a Fall Arrest Device | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
| 17213520 | Two-Part Locking Polymer Hub for Cable Self-Retracting Device | MCFARLAND, KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN | — |
| 16599908 | Harness With Adjustable Belt Strap | MCFARLAND, KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| MSA Safety | 7 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 2 |
| 3635 | 2 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19415939 | Safety Helmet | Msa Technology, LLC | LOPEZ, ERICK I | 3732 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2025 |
| 18822947 | Safety Device for Providing Output to an Individual Associated with a Hazardous Environment | Msa Technology, LLC | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3646 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18584323 | Systems and Methods for Tracking Lifeline Payout and Retraction | Msa Technology, LLC | PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | 3634 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18189582 | Case or Cradle for a Fall Arrest Device | Latchways PLC | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 3634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 17640699 | Filling Element for Filling up a Space Between at Least One Compressed Gas Bottle of a Breathing Apparatus and a Carrier Plate | Msa Europe GmbH | PHILIPS, BRADLEY H | 3799 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
| 17213520 | Two-Part Locking Polymer Hub for Cable Self-Retracting Device | Msa Technology, LLC | MCFARLAND, KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2021 |
| 16599908 | Harness With Adjustable Belt Strap | Msa Technology, LLC | MCFARLAND, KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN | 3635 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2019 |
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Start Free Trial73.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Jones Day For Msa were allowed, across 12,721 applications in USPTO records.
3.51 office actions per allowed application on average.
7 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 6 examiners in 5 art units.
