Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Evolution Controls Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current intellectual property efforts are highly centralized. In the medical device sector, such a focused prosecution profile often points to a specific mechanical innovation being examined by a single specialized group.
TRAN, THIEN S is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio contains only 1 pending action in total, this examiner has exclusive oversight of the company's current patent pipeline. The 1 distinct art unit involved will dictate the procedural rules and timelines for this case. Consequently, the company's strategy must be tailored to the specific expectations of TRAN, THIEN S, as there are no other active matters to balance the prosecution risk across different examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, THIEN S | 1 | 71.9% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18111475 | Apparatus and Method for Modulating Forced Air Electric Heater Control with Temperature Protection | TRAN, THIEN S | 77d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18111475 | Apparatus and Method for Modulating Forced Air Electric Heater Control with Temperature Protection | TRAN, THIEN S | 77d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18111475 | Apparatus and Method for Modulating Forced Air Electric Heater Control with Temperature Protection | TRAN, THIEN S | 3761 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEvolution Controls Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thien S Tran has the most, with 1 of Evolution Controls Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.