Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Addison Hvac LLC is currently addressing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated in 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution efforts are concentrated, reflecting a singular focus within the patent office's administrative structure for its pending intellectual property.
The busiest examiner for the company is NIEVES, NELSON J, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This figure represents the total of 1 pending office actions for Addison Hvac LLC. Consequently, the company's immediate patent outcomes depend on the specific interactions with this 1 examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, rather than a broader group of officials.
The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the pending technology falls into a specific sub-category of mechanical engineering. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company does not need to manage multiple prosecution timelines or varying examiner styles. This streamlined environment allows for a focused approach to resolving the 1 pending office action through a single point of contact at the patent office.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIEVES, NELSON J | 1 | 75.3% | +16.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18735053 | HYBRID AIR HANDLER | NIEVES, NELSON J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18735053 | HYBRID AIR HANDLER | NIEVES, NELSON J | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
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