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
Great Southern Flameless LLC maintains a focused prosecution presence in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SHIRSAT, VIVEK K, within 1 distinct art unit. The narrow scope of this activity suggests a targeted intellectual property strategy where all current efforts are concentrated under a single examiner. This structure allows for a very direct line of communication with the patent office.
As the busiest examiner, SHIRSAT, VIVEK K is responsible for 1 pending office action, which represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Because there is only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no diversification across different examination groups. Practitioners interacting with this portfolio will find all current activity concentrated under this single examiner and art unit, rather than spread across multiple technical areas or personnel.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 1 | 74.3% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891945 | COMBUSTION SYSTEM USING OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18891945 | COMBUSTION SYSTEM USING OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGreat Southern Flameless LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Vivek K Shirsat has the most, with 1 of Great Southern Flameless LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
