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
North American Assembly LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to HOANG, JOHNNY H, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, creating a highly centralized environment for the company's pending application.
With only 1 pending office action to manage, the company can dedicate its resources to understanding the specific examination style of HOANG, JOHNNY H. This focus is reinforced by the fact that the workload is contained within 1 distinct art unit, which typically follows a unified set of internal guidelines. While this reduces the complexity of managing multiple officials, it also means that the company's progress in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field is dependent on the outcome of this single prosecution path. The applicant must be prepared to address the specific technical concerns raised by this individual examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOANG, JOHNNY H | 1 | 88.9% | +12.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971116 | AIR INTAKE SYSTEM | HOANG, JOHNNY H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971116 | AIR INTAKE SYSTEM | HOANG, JOHNNY H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18971116 | AIR INTAKE SYSTEM | HOANG, JOHNNY H | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNorth American Assembly LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Johnny H Hoang has the most, with 1 of North American Assembly LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
