Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Equipmake Limited currently maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio is characterized by 1 pending office action, which constitutes the entirety of the company's current active prosecution. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated technical focus for the pending intellectual property.
The prosecution process involves 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a singular focus for the company's legal representatives. GAYE, SAMBA NMN is the busiest examiner for Equipmake Limited, currently handling 1 pending office action. As the only examiner listed in the data, his individual review and interpretation of the patent claims will be the decisive factor in the current prosecution cycle.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the portfolio's current activity is straightforward from an administrative perspective. However, this also means that the company's immediate patent goals are tied to a single set of interactions. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific style of GAYE, SAMBA NMN and the standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area to move the 1 pending office action toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 1 | 62.2% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558638 | A HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558638 | A HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18558638 | A HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | GAYE, SAMBA NMN | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEquipmake Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Samba Nmn Gaye has the most, with 1 of Equipmake Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
