Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Northern Tool & Equipment Company, Inc. maintains 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a broad distribution of technical subject matter. This variety suggests that the company's innovations in medical devices and mechanical engineering are being evaluated by several different specialized groups within the patent office. The alignment of 3 pending actions with 3 separate examiners and 3 art units means that each application is being evaluated independently.
Examiner HASAN, SYED O is identified as the busiest, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 distinct examiners is handling only 1 pending office action, the company's prosecution is not concentrated under any single individual. This distribution across 3 distinct art units requires the company to manage three different sets of technical standards and examination styles simultaneously. The presence of 3 pending office actions reflects an active and diverse engagement with the patent office. This strategy ensures that the company's mechanical engineering and medical device intellectual property is reviewed by a wide range of expertise.
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 | 78.2% | +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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