Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Danfoss Commercial Compressors has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. While these actions are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, they are being handled by 3 distinct examiners. This concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the company's innovations are technically similar, even though they are being evaluated by different individuals.
NORMAN, MARC E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The 3 pending office actions are distributed equally, with each of the 3 examiners managing a single matter. For the practitioner, this means that while the technical standards of the 1 art unit will be consistent, the prosecution strategy must be tailored to the individual preferences of NORMAN, MARC E and the other assigned examiners. This split workload requires maintaining three separate dialogues within the same art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORMAN, MARC E | 1 | 84.0% | +10.8% |
| DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 1 | 65.3% | +30.9% |
| FURDGE, LARRY L | 1 | 62.5% | +16.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18753330 | METHOD OF MANAGING OIL IN A MULTI-COMPRESSOR REFRIGERATION SYSTEM USING OIL LEVEL DETECTION DEVICES | FURDGE, LARRY L | 29d |
| 18837987 | A MULTI-COMPRESSOR SYSTEM HAVING INDIVIDUAL OIL BALANCING LINES | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18753330 | METHOD OF MANAGING OIL IN A MULTI-COMPRESSOR REFRIGERATION SYSTEM USING OIL LEVEL DETECTION DEVICES | FURDGE, LARRY L | 29d |
| 18757606 | MULTI-COMPRESSOR REFRIGERATION SYSTEM HAVING A COMMON OIL EQUALIZATION LINE PROVIDED WITH AN OIL PUMPING DEVICE | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 70d |
| 18837987 | A MULTI-COMPRESSOR SYSTEM HAVING INDIVIDUAL OIL BALANCING LINES | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18837987 | A MULTI-COMPRESSOR SYSTEM HAVING INDIVIDUAL OIL BALANCING LINES | NORMAN, MARC E | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18757606 | MULTI-COMPRESSOR REFRIGERATION SYSTEM HAVING A COMMON OIL EQUALIZATION LINE PROVIDED WITH AN OIL PUMPING DEVICE | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18753330 | METHOD OF MANAGING OIL IN A MULTI-COMPRESSOR REFRIGERATION SYSTEM USING OIL LEVEL DETECTION DEVICES | FURDGE, LARRY L | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDanfoss Commercial Compressors has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Marc E Norman has the most, with 1 of Danfoss Commercial Compressors's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
