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
Factory Mutual Insurance Company has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The action is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit.
SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Prosecution attention can remain concentrated on that action and on the requirements of the identified art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 1 | 82.1% | +15.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865516 | IN-RACK FIRE DETECTION AND EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM AND METHOD | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865516 | IN-RACK FIRE DETECTION AND EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM AND METHOD | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865516 | IN-RACK FIRE DETECTION AND EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM AND METHOD | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialFactory Mutual Insurance Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven M Sutherland has the most, with 1 of Factory Mutual Insurance Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
