Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cimarron Energy Inc. is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, meaning that each case is being handled by a separate individual. Both of these examiners are located within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a focused administrative path for the company's current mechanical engineering filings.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is NOH, JAE NAM, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner manages half of the company's current pending workload of 2 pending office actions. Although there are 2 distinct examiners involved, the fact that they both operate within the same 1 distinct art unit provides a consistent procedural framework for the company's prosecution. Practitioners can look for similarities in the feedback from both examiners to better understand the standards of the single art unit involved. The presence of 2 distinct examiners ensures that the company's outcomes are not entirely dependent on the perspective of a single person, even though the administrative oversight is centralized in 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOH, JAE NAM | 1 | 86.4% | -9.4% |
| SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 1 | 74.3% | +27.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800496 | Method of Measuring a Methane Destruction and Removal Efficiency of an Elevated Flare | NOH, JAE NAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18235093 | Hybrid Flare Apparatus | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2481 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18800496 | Method of Measuring a Methane Destruction and Removal Efficiency of an Elevated Flare | NOH, JAE NAM | 2481 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18235093 | Hybrid Flare Apparatus | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCimarron Energy Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jae Nam Noh has the most, with 1 of Cimarron Energy Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.