Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carrier Japan Corporation has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio involves 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that prosecution is concentrated within a limited technical grouping but distributed among several examination personnel.
SHAIKH, MERAJ A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The remaining workload is handled by other examiners, making examiner-specific tracking important even though the art-unit footprint is narrow. A coordinated technical record may help preserve consistency across responses while allowing counsel to address different examiner concerns.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 2 | 57.3% | +22.3% |
| MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 78.8% | +20.7% |
| YE, ZI | 1 | 85.2% | +17.6% |
| COMINGS, DANIEL C | 1 | 63.8% | +37.2% |
| TADESSE, MARTHA | 1 | 67.2% | +14.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19216400 | INDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 19075974 | EQUIPMENT DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD | YE, ZI | — |
| 19052875 | ACCUMULATOR FIXING MECHANISM AND COMPRESSOR | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | — |
| 19100111 | REFRIGERATION CYCLE DEVICE | SHAIKH, MERAJ 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18848802 | ROTARY COMPRESSOR AND REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS | TADESSE, MARTHA | 9d |
| 19216400 | INDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 19075974 | EQUIPMENT DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD | YE, ZI | — |
| 19052875 | ACCUMULATOR FIXING MECHANISM AND COMPRESSOR | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | — |
| 19100111 | REFRIGERATION CYCLE DEVICE | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | — |
| 18996729 | MULTI-TYPE AIR-CONDITIONING DEVICE | COMINGS, DANIEL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 5 |
| 2455 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19216400 | INDOOR UNIT OF AIR CONDITIONER | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19075974 | EQUIPMENT DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD | YE, ZI | 2455 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19052875 | ACCUMULATOR FIXING MECHANISM AND COMPRESSOR | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19100111 | REFRIGERATION CYCLE DEVICE | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18996729 | MULTI-TYPE AIR-CONDITIONING DEVICE | COMINGS, DANIEL C | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18848802 | ROTARY COMPRESSOR AND REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS | TADESSE, MARTHA | 3763 | — | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCarrier Japan Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Meraj A Shaikh has the most, with 2 of Carrier Japan Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
