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 • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Noritz Corporation currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, showing a concentrated effort on a single patent application. The company's current prosecution activity is entirely focused on this specific pending matter.
The matter is being prosecuted within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the 1 pending office action. SHIRSAT, VIVEK K is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, SHIRSAT, VIVEK K is the only official the applicant must work with for the 1 pending office action.
For a practitioner, this single-examiner environment allows for a very focused legal strategy. There is no need to coordinate across different art units or examiners for the 1 pending office action. Noritz Corporation can focus its resources on addressing the specific concerns raised by SHIRSAT, VIVEK K within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 1 | 74.3% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18812976 | PREMIXING DEVICE AND COMBUSTION DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18812976 | PREMIXING DEVICE AND COMBUSTION DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18812976 | PREMIXING DEVICE AND COMBUSTION DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 3762 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNoritz Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Vivek K Shirsat has the most, with 1 of Noritz Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
