Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Holtec International has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 8 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, so the portfolio is spread across several examination settings despite its limited number of pending actions.
STANEK, KELSEY L is the busiest identified examiner, with 1 pending matter. No single examiner accounts for more than the stated amount in the available profile, which points to a distributed prosecution workload. Counsel can therefore focus on application-level preparation while maintaining a concise docket view for the separate examiner and art-unit assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STANEK, KELSEY L | 1 | 80.7% | +15.3% |
| MASKELL, MICHAEL P | 1 | 86.1% | +9.2% |
| IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | 1 | 86.7% | +9.5% |
| GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 1 | 68.2% | +16.3% |
| STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1 | 80.8% | +15.4% |
| LANE, DEVON | 1 | 55.7% | +13.9% |
| RUPPERT, ERIC S | 1 | 60.1% | +23.9% |
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 61.3% | +39.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796344 | NUCLEAR WASTE CASK WITH IMPACT PROTECTION, IMPACT AMELIORATION SYSTEM FOR NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE, UNVENTILATED CASK FOR STORING NUCLEAR WASTE, AND STORAGE AND TRANSPORT CASK FOR NUCLEAR WASTE | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | — |
| 18425329 | CONTAINER FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18386899 | EDDY CURRENT TESTING APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | LANE, DEVON | 29d |
| 19404916 | SOLAR POWER GENERATION SYSTEM | STANEK, KELSEY L | — |
| 18886245 | NUCLEAR MATERIALS APPARATUS AND IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | MASKELL, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18755937 | CASK WITH VENTILATION CONTROL FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18386899 | EDDY CURRENT TESTING APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | LANE, DEVON | 29d |
| 19404916 | SOLAR POWER GENERATION SYSTEM | STANEK, KELSEY L | — |
| 18755937 | CASK WITH VENTILATION CONTROL FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | — |
| 18425329 | CONTAINER FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
| 18239949 | GREEN ENERGY THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM | RUPPERT, ERIC S | — |
| 17837853 | GREEN ENERGY THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 2881 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19404916 | SOLAR POWER GENERATION SYSTEM | STANEK, KELSEY L | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2025 |
| 18886245 | NUCLEAR MATERIALS APPARATUS AND IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | MASKELL, MICHAEL P | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18796344 | NUCLEAR WASTE CASK WITH IMPACT PROTECTION, IMPACT AMELIORATION SYSTEM FOR NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE, UNVENTILATED CASK FOR STORING NUCLEAR WASTE, AND STORAGE AND TRANSPORT CASK FOR NUCLEAR WASTE | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | 2881 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18755937 | CASK WITH VENTILATION CONTROL FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 3646 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18425329 | CONTAINER FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 3762 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18386899 | EDDY CURRENT TESTING APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | LANE, DEVON | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18239949 | GREEN ENERGY THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM | RUPPERT, ERIC S | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 17837853 | GREEN ENERGY THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHoltec International has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 8 examiners.
Kelsey L Stanek has the most, with 1 of Holtec International's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
