Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Edwards Limited has 11 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket spans 10 examiners and 6 art units, showing broad examiner involvement alongside recurring technical groupings.
WEINERT, WILLIAM C is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. Those matters can support coordinated review of prosecution positions, while the other examiner assignments require separate handling. The 6 art units provide a practical structure for assigning technical responsibility and identifying related issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (70%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.6% |
| DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 1 | 68.3% | +40.2% |
| BOGUE, JESSE SAMUEL | 1 | 79.0% | +21.1% |
| LUONG, HENRY T | 1 | 76.0% | +18.0% |
| ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | 1 | 64.0% | +28.7% |
| GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | 1 | 70.2% | +45.5% |
| LIN, KO-WEI | 1 | 76.1% | +20.1% |
| HAMMOND III, THOMAS M | 1 | 76.1% | +29.0% |
| WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 1 | 57.9% | +35.7% |
| MORELLO, JEAN F | 1 | 68.8% | +8.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291163 | VACUUM GAUGE ASSEMBLY WITH ORIENTATION SENSOR | HAMMOND III, THOMAS M | 50d overdue |
| 19473641 | VACUUM PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | — |
| 19472466 | VACUUM PUMP | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | — |
| 19159887 | SCROLL PUMP | BOGUE, JESSE SAMUEL | — |
| 18859368 | FLUID ROUTING FOR A VACUUM PUMPING SYSTEM | LUONG, HENRY T | — |
| 18712554 | SEPARATOR APPARATUS ROTOR | ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | — |
| 18708873 | TURBOMOLECULAR PUMP BLADED DISC | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | — |
| 18576592 | INLET NOZZLE ASSEMBLY | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291163 | VACUUM GAUGE ASSEMBLY WITH ORIENTATION SENSOR | HAMMOND III, THOMAS M | 50d overdue |
| 19473641 | VACUUM PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | — |
| 19472466 | VACUUM PUMP | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | — |
| 19159887 | SCROLL PUMP | BOGUE, JESSE SAMUEL | — |
| 18859368 | FLUID ROUTING FOR A VACUUM PUMPING SYSTEM | LUONG, HENRY T | — |
| 18712554 | SEPARATOR APPARATUS ROTOR | ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | — |
| 18708873 | TURBOMOLECULAR PUMP BLADED DISC | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | — |
| 18292162 | INLET HEAD ASSEMBLY | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 3 |
| 3762 | 2 |
| 2855 | 2 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19473641 | VACUUM PUMP | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19472466 | VACUUM PUMP | DOYLE, BENJAMIN C | 3746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19159887 | SCROLL PUMP | BOGUE, JESSE SAMUEL | 3746 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 18859368 | FLUID ROUTING FOR A VACUUM PUMPING SYSTEM | LUONG, HENRY T | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18712554 | SEPARATOR APPARATUS ROTOR | ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | 1731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18708873 | TURBOMOLECULAR PUMP BLADED DISC | GOLIK, ARTHUR PAUL | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18292162 | INLET HEAD ASSEMBLY | LIN, KO-WEI | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18291163 | VACUUM GAUGE ASSEMBLY WITH ORIENTATION SENSOR | HAMMOND III, THOMAS M | 2855 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18576592 | INLET NOZZLE ASSEMBLY | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18256551 | BEARING WEAR MONITORING | MORELLO, JEAN F | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEdwards Limited has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 10 examiners.
Thomas Andrew Fink has the most, with 1 of Edwards Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
