Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Noritz America Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio features a distinct examiner, ANDERSON II, STEVEN S, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Prosecution is limited to a distinct art unit. This focused profile means the company's current patent efforts are centralized under a single examiner's review. Practitioners should evaluate the specific art unit's historical trends to manage the pending action.
The presence of a pending office action indicates a streamlined prosecution environment. Because the portfolio is limited to a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit, there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior or art unit efficiency within the company's own data. Success for Noritz America Corporation depends on navigating the specific requirements of ANDERSON II, STEVEN S. This concentration under a single point of review simplifies administrative tracking but increases the impact of any single procedural hurdle.
In the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, where examination can be highly technical, having a distinct art unit involved suggests a consistent application of subject matter standards. However, the reliance on a distinct examiner means that the company's patent trajectory is currently subject to a single perspective. Practitioners should focus on the historical allowance rates and common rejection types associated with the specific examiner to optimize their response strategy for the 1 pending office action.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 1 | 66.0% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18470436 | WATER HEATER FIXING ASSEMBLY | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 81d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18470436 | WATER HEATER FIXING ASSEMBLY | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 81d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
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