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
Henderson Engineers Inc. holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The current state of prosecution is defined by 1 pending office action. This single active point of contact suggests a highly targeted approach to their current intellectual property filings. The focus on one active matter indicates that the company is currently advancing a specific mechanical or medical innovation through the regulatory process.
The examination of this portfolio is conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This level of concentration indicates that the company current patent efforts are focused on a specific mechanical technology. The lack of multiple art units simplifies the administrative oversight required for these filings, as all communications are centralized within one technical division of the patent office.
WEINERT, WILLIAM C serves as the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is the sole official currently reviewing the company active applications. Consequently, the immediate future of the portfolio growth is tied to the specific examination results produced by this individual. The fact that the busiest examiner pending count is 1 confirms that there is no division of labor across different examiners for the current workload.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 1 | 57.9% | +35.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17684812 | HVAC MODULAR UNIFORM DUCT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17684812 | HVAC MODULAR UNIFORM DUCT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHenderson Engineers Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
William C Weinert has the most, with 1 of Henderson Engineers Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
