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
Ningbo Bright Electric Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. John J Norton is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. The company's prosecution is currently focused on a single point. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are being reviewed by one individual.
Norton is the sole examiner with a pending action for this entity. Practitioners can concentrate on the 1 pending office action. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit simplifies the management of the portfolio. The prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interaction with John J Norton. This centralized structure ensures that the company's current intellectual property efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector are not split across different examination groups, allowing for a unified and focused prosecution approach.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTON, JOHN J | 1 | 67.5% | +28.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18448135 | LIGHT WITH A HEATING FUNCTION | NORTON, JOHN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18448135 | LIGHT WITH A HEATING FUNCTION | NORTON, JOHN J | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNingbo Bright Electric Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John J Norton has the most, with 1 of Ningbo Bright Electric Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
