Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
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
Energy Recovery Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, giving each action a separate examiner and examination-group setting. Counsel should coordinate the portfolio’s mechanical and device terminology while developing responses for the individual records.
FURDGE, LARRY L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner handles one of the current actions rather than the whole docket. A comparative review may identify consistent technical themes, but prosecution decisions should remain specific to the assigned art unit and examiner’s treatment.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FURDGE, LARRY L | 1 | 62.5% | +16.7% |
| KASTURE, DNYANESH G | 1 | 48.0% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17858936 | REDUCED MIXING PRESSURE EXCHANGER | KASTURE, DNYANESH G | 56d |
| 18819805 | CONTROL OF REFRIGERATION AND HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS THAT INCLUDE PRESSURE EXCHANGERS | FURDGE, LARRY L | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18819805 | CONTROL OF REFRIGERATION AND HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS THAT INCLUDE PRESSURE EXCHANGERS | FURDGE, LARRY L | 3763 | DP | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 17858936 | REDUCED MIXING PRESSURE EXCHANGER | KASTURE, DNYANESH G | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jul 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEnergy Recovery Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Larry L Furdge has the most, with 1 of Energy Recovery Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
