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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fluence Water Products And Innovation Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending case. The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a very specific and focused technical area for the company's current patenting activity.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution workload is light, but the importance of this single case is high. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner, ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C, means that the prosecution strategy should be tailored specifically to this individual's examination history and preferences. There is no internal data from other pending cases to help predict how this examiner might react compared to others in the same field.
The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is not currently diversifying its intellectual property across multiple technical disciplines. This allows for a streamlined legal strategy focused on the rules and norms of that single art unit. The 1 pending office action represents the totality of the company's current active engagement with the patent office in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 1 | 69.6% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861687 | A SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18861687 | A SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18861687 | A SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFluence Water Products And Innovation Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nathan C Zollinger has the most, with 1 of Fluence Water Products And Innovation Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
