Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northern Tool & Equipment Company, Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the count of pending actions matches the count of examiners, suggesting that the company's current prosecution workload is not concentrated under any individual.
HASAN, SYED O is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending action. This 1 action is part of the total 2 pending office actions for the company. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for the actions indicates that the technical subject matter, while categorized under Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, is reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office.
For practitioners, this spread across distinct art units means that prosecution strategies may need to account for the specific tendencies of different examination environments. With distinct examiners involved, the company maintains a small footprint across the office's personnel. The presence of a pending action with the busiest examiner highlights a balanced distribution where no examiner is managing more than a single case for this entity.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASAN, SYED O | 1 | 78.3% | +18.6% |
| GANEY, STEVEN J | 1 | 82.2% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18471423 | BATTERY-POWERED SKID SPRAYER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD THEREOF | GANEY, STEVEN J | 4d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18471423 | BATTERY-POWERED SKID SPRAYER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD THEREOF | GANEY, STEVEN J | 4d overdue |
| 18912728 | GENERATOR SOUND ATTENUATION AND SYSTEM THEREOF | HASAN, SYED O | 43d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18912728 | GENERATOR SOUND ATTENUATION AND SYSTEM THEREOF | HASAN, SYED O | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18471423 | BATTERY-POWERED SKID SPRAYER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD THEREOF | GANEY, STEVEN J | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNorthern Tool & Equipment Company, Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Syed O Hasan has the most, with 1 of Northern Tool & Equipment Company, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
