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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Australian Valve Group Pty Ltd. is currently handling 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts, with no distribution across other technical fields or examiner groups.
The busiest examiner, GARDNER, NICOLE, is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Since this is the examiner currently reviewing the company's work, the outcome of the prosecution is dependent on this individual's findings. Practitioners should focus on the specific history and tendencies of this examiner to prepare an effective response. The examiner's prior rulings in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field will be a key factor in the case.
With only the distinct art unit involved, the company avoids the administrative burden of navigating different USPTO sections. This allows for a more direct and simplified approach to the active office action. The data reflects a highly concentrated and singular prosecution environment, which can be managed with a high degree of focus and consistency.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.4% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17715542 | VALVE CARTRIDGE, VALVE CARTRIDGE KIT, VALVE INCORPORATING A VALVE CARTRIDGE OR VALVE CARTRIDGE KIT AND A METHOD OF ASSEMBLING A VALVE | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17715542 | VALVE CARTRIDGE, VALVE CARTRIDGE KIT, VALVE INCORPORATING A VALVE CARTRIDGE OR VALVE CARTRIDGE KIT AND A METHOD OF ASSEMBLING A VALVE | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAustralian Valve Group Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nicole Gardner has the most, with 1 of Australian Valve Group Pty Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
