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
La Nuova Coterm Srl currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated profile suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a specific mechanical or medical innovation rather than a diverse technological range.
KURT JOSEPH WOLFORD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action constitutes the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Because the portfolio involves only 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy is highly centralized. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further confirms that the company is interacting with a specific technical group at the USPTO, which may provide consistency in the examination process for this particular filing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | 1 | 75.7% | +26.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715827 | BOILER AND USE THEREOF | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715827 | BOILER AND USE THEREOF | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715827 | BOILER AND USE THEREOF | WOLFORD, KURT JOSEPH | 3762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLa Nuova Coterm Srl has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kurt Joseph Wolford has the most, with 1 of La Nuova Coterm Srl's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.