Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Copeland Comfort Control LP has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution is split across 2 distinct art units, which means each pending action is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit.
The busiest examiner for the company is NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M, who is currently responsible for 1 pending action. With 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, there is no overlap in examiner assignments for the current portfolio. The involvement of 2 distinct art units within the medical devices and mechanical engineering field suggests that the company's pending applications may cover different technical sub-specialties. This decentralized structure requires managing 2 separate examination paths simultaneously. Practitioners should be prepared for different procedural expectations and timelines from the assigned art units. The lack of concentration in a single art unit or examiner indicates a range of technical subject matter in the company's current filings. This diversity requires a flexible approach to prosecution across the 2 distinct art units.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOROWAR, GOLAM | 1 | 81.4% | +17.9% |
| TAN, ALVIN H | 1 | 57.0% | +19.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18764442 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESSLY CONFIGURING CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM CONTROLS | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18764442 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESSLY CONFIGURING CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM CONTROLS | SOROWAR, GOLAM | — |
| 18454330 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OCCUPANCY DETECTION IN SPLIT THERMOSTAT | TAN, ALVIN H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2641 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18764442 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESSLY CONFIGURING CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM CONTROLS | SOROWAR, GOLAM | 2641 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18454330 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OCCUPANCY DETECTION IN SPLIT THERMOSTAT | TAN, ALVIN H | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
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