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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jackson State University currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a highly concentrated prosecution phase. This single active matter indicates that the university is likely prioritizing a specific mechanical innovation or maintaining a lean domestic filing strategy at this stage.
The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner across 1 distinct art unit. This total alignment between the examiner count and the art unit count reflects a lack of technical fragmentation in the current workload. For practitioners, this means that the entirety of the university's immediate patent outcomes depends on a single relationship within the USPTO. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests the filing is highly specialized.
NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this examiner is responsible for the only pending action, their specific examination style and prior rulings will dictate the immediate trajectory of the university's intellectual property. The concentration of 1 busiest examiner pending action under a single individual simplifies the monitoring process but increases the impact of that examiner's specific tendencies.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 1 | 71.7% | +30.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17373374 | THERMOMETER DEVICE | NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 53d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17373374 | THERMOMETER DEVICE | NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 53d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17373374 | THERMOMETER DEVICE | NATNITHITHADHA, NAVIN | 3791 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Jul 12, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialJackson State University has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Navin Natnithithadha has the most, with 1 of Jackson State University's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
