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
Gas Activated Systems currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a very specific and narrow technical focus for the company's current patenting activity. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter is highly specialized within the mechanical engineering field.
VILAKAZI, SIZO BINDA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 action total, the entire prosecution effort is consolidated with this 1 examiner in a single art unit. This provides a clear and singular point of contact for the company as it moves through the examination process, ensuring that the prosecution strategy remains focused and consistent.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VILAKAZI, SIZO BINDA | 1 | 74.5% | +11.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891901 | ENGINE OVERSPEED DEVICE AND METHOD | VILAKAZI, SIZO BINDA | 29d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18891901 | ENGINE OVERSPEED DEVICE AND METHOD | VILAKAZI, SIZO BINDA | 3747 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGas Activated Systems has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sizo Binda Vilakazi has the most, with 1 of Gas Activated Systems's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
