Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Frostgreen AB currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter receives an independent review. Furthermore, the applications are situated in 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's intellectual property covers different mechanical or medical specialties within the broader technology area.
JAMES N SMALLEY is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Because there are only 2 pending actions in total, this single action represents a significant portion of the current prosecution activity. The distribution across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners means that Frostgreen AB is not currently facing any concentration of examiner risk or art unit specific delays.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the company must address two separate sets of examiner expectations. The 2 distinct art units involved indicate that the technical subject matter is sufficiently different to be classified into separate examination categories. This focused but divided portfolio requires precise attention to the specific requirements of each individual examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.8% |
| MALIK, VIPUL | 1 | 62.5% | +36.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19330865 | Clinical waste container and method for producing the same | MALIK, VIPUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19353645 | Waste container and method for using the same | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19330865 | Clinical waste container and method for producing the same | MALIK, VIPUL | 1754 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialFrostgreen AB has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
James N Smalley has the most, with 1 of Frostgreen AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
