Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hypertherm Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 examiners and 3 art units, showing examiner-level distribution with some art-unit overlap.
FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate device and mechanical claim positions across the docket while recognizing that examiner-specific treatment may vary.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | 1 | 69.8% | +67.2% |
| LEE JR, WOODY A | 1 | 84.4% | +13.2% |
| HUNTER, JOHN S | 1 | 83.1% | +22.4% |
| TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 1 | 42.9% | +50.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18135939 | CARTRIDGE FOR A LIQUID-COOLED PLASMA ARC TORCH | HUNTER, JOHN S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18382355 | ELECTRODES FOR A PLASMA ARC PROCESSING SYSTEM | LEE JR, WOODY A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17144845 | NOZZLES FOR LIQUID COOLED PLASMA ARC CUTTING TORCHES WITH CLOCKING-INDEPENDENT PASSAGES | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 16d |
| 18810432 | ABRASIVE SUSPENSION JET CUTTING SYSTEM HAVING REDUCED SYSTEM WEAR AND PROCESS MATERIALS RECLAMATION | FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | — |
| 18382355 | ELECTRODES FOR A PLASMA ARC PROCESSING SYSTEM | LEE JR, WOODY A | — |
| 18135939 | CARTRIDGE FOR A LIQUID-COOLED PLASMA ARC TORCH | HUNTER, JOHN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 2 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18810432 | ABRASIVE SUSPENSION JET CUTTING SYSTEM HAVING REDUCED SYSTEM WEAR AND PROCESS MATERIALS RECLAMATION | FULL, SIDNEY DANIELLE | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18382355 | ELECTRODES FOR A PLASMA ARC PROCESSING SYSTEM | LEE JR, WOODY A | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18135939 | CARTRIDGE FOR A LIQUID-COOLED PLASMA ARC TORCH | HUNTER, JOHN S | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 17144845 | NOZZLES FOR LIQUID COOLED PLASMA ARC CUTTING TORCHES WITH CLOCKING-INDEPENDENT PASSAGES | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Jan 08, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialHypertherm Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Sidney Danielle Full has the most, with 1 of Hypertherm Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
