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
Fluid Handling LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ANDERSON II, STEVEN S, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The data indicates that there are 0 distinct art units associated with the company's current prosecution. This lack of a recorded art unit suggests a specific administrative status for the pending file that practitioners should account for when tracking the case.
Because the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total pending office actions of 1, the company's entire active portfolio is concentrated under ANDERSON II, STEVEN S. This single point of contact means that the examiner's specific technical interpretations and procedural requirements will determine the immediate outcome for the company's intellectual property. The absence of a technology area in the profile further highlights the individualized nature of this specific prosecution track.
For a practitioner, the focus is entirely on the 1 distinct examiner. Without multiple pending actions or distinct art units to provide a broader context, the strategy must be tailored to the feedback from ANDERSON II, STEVEN S. The practitioner must navigate the prosecution of this single matter without the benefit of internal benchmarks from other active files within the company's USPTO pipeline. This requires a high degree of precision in responding to the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 1 | 66.3% | +35.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822679 | FOAM DETECTION TECHNIQUE-ALGORITHM FOR STEAM BOILERS USING LWCO DEVICE | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822679 | FOAM DETECTION TECHNIQUE-ALGORITHM FOR STEAM BOILERS USING LWCO DEVICE | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18822679 | FOAM DETECTION TECHNIQUE-ALGORITHM FOR STEAM BOILERS USING LWCO DEVICE | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 3762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFluid Handling LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven S Anderson II has the most, with 1 of Fluid Handling LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
