Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Noble International LLC has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 examiners across 2 art units, which indicates examiner-level distribution with some shared art-unit responsibility.
RUSHING, MARK S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since the supplied data does not identify a dominant examiner, counsel should coordinate application-specific responses while comparing issues within each art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHING, MARK S | 1 | 76.8% | +23.5% |
| HULL, JAMES B | 1 | 45.4% | +52.4% |
| EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 1 | 43.4% | +31.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE PATIENT SELF-ADMINISTRATION | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 35d overdue |
| 18862702 | AR MARKER FOR INJECTION | HULL, JAMES B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE PATIENT SELF-ADMINISTRATION | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 35d overdue |
| 18715258 | ENERGY HARVESTING SUBSTANCE EVENT MONITORING SYSTEM | RUSHING, MARK S | 26d |
| 18862702 | AR MARKER FOR INJECTION | HULL, JAMES B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715258 | ENERGY HARVESTING SUBSTANCE EVENT MONITORING SYSTEM | RUSHING, MARK S | 2689 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18862702 | AR MARKER FOR INJECTION | HULL, JAMES B | 3715 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18709666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE PATIENT SELF-ADMINISTRATION | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNoble International LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Mark S Rushing has the most, with 1 of Noble International LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
