Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hunter Industries Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, showing some assignment overlap while retaining more than one examination context.
GORMAN, DARREN W is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. That examiner handles most of the listed activity, making consistency across those responses especially relevant. The remaining action should still be reviewed independently because its examiner and art-unit context may produce different prior-art or claim-interpretation issues.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GORMAN, DARREN W | 2 | 79.2% | +24.7% |
| CHAN, WEI | 1 | 74.7% | +13.8% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19229539 | LOW BYPASS HIGH TORQUE TURBINE AND STATOR FOR A ROTATING IRRIGATION SPRINKLER | GORMAN, DARREN W | — |
| 19202936 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING POWER AND DATA TO DEVICES | CHAN, WEI | — |
| 19173495 | SPRAY HEAD SPRINKLER | GORMAN, DARREN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 2 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19229539 | LOW BYPASS HIGH TORQUE TURBINE AND STATOR FOR A ROTATING IRRIGATION SPRINKLER | GORMAN, DARREN W | 3752 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19202936 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING POWER AND DATA TO DEVICES | CHAN, WEI | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19173495 | SPRAY HEAD SPRINKLER | GORMAN, DARREN W | 3752 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialHunter Industries Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Darren W Gorman has the most, with 2 of Hunter Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
