Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Norton (Waterford) Limited currently manages 8 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Each of these 8 pending office actions is assigned to a different person, as there are 8 distinct examiners involved. The portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the 8 distinct examiners are working within a few specialized technical groups. SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B is the busiest examiner, though they only have 1 pending office action. This perfectly even distribution means no single examiner has a larger influence than any other on the current portfolio.
The 4 distinct art units indicate a focused technical range for the company's innovations. For practitioners, the 8 distinct examiners represent different sets of perspectives and procedural habits. The 8 pending office actions constitute the entire active workload for the company in this sector. With 4 distinct art units involved, the company's innovations are being evaluated by several different technical groups. The presence of 8 distinct examiners requires the company to manage multiple prosecution styles simultaneously. These 8 pending office actions represent the current active workload for Norton (Waterford) Limited. The involvement of 1 pending office action with SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B is the only point of examiner overlap.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 5 (62%) |
| §103 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | 1 | 57.5% | +39.6% |
| DOWNEY, JOHN R | 1 | 60.0% | +23.6% |
| GREIG, THOMAS W | 1 | 74.9% | +23.6% |
| RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | 1 | 51.4% | +56.8% |
| VO, TU A | 1 | 61.0% | +58.0% |
| JANG, JAEICK | 1 | 66.7% | +53.7% |
| RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 1 | 66.0% | +41.7% |
| KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 1 | 23.4% | +31.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751627 | INHALER SYSTEM | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 34d |
| 18448570 | Dry Powder Medicament Inhaler | RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 40d |
| 19470753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | — |
| 18740754 | INHALER | GREIG, THOMAS W | — |
| 18645057 | ELECTRONIC MODULE FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | — |
| 18558126 | INHALER SYSTEM | JANG, JAEICK | — |
| 17505821 | Inhaler System | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409231 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE WITH ELECTRONICS | VO, TU A | 146d overdue |
| 18751627 | INHALER SYSTEM | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 34d |
| 18448570 | Dry Powder Medicament Inhaler | RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 40d |
| 19470753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | — |
| 18740754 | INHALER | GREIG, THOMAS W | — |
| 18645057 | ELECTRONIC MODULE FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | — |
| 18558126 | INHALER SYSTEM | JANG, JAEICK | — |
| 17505821 | Inhaler System | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 5 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 3792 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19470753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA | SIOZOPOULOS, CONSTANTINE B | 3686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 18751627 | INHALER SYSTEM | DOWNEY, JOHN R | 3792 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18740754 | INHALER | GREIG, THOMAS W | 3785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18645057 | ELECTRONIC MODULE FOR MEDICAL DEVICE | RUSSELL, SYDNEY REYES | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18409231 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE WITH ELECTRONICS | VO, TU A | 3785 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 146d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18558126 | INHALER SYSTEM | JANG, JAEICK | 3785 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18448570 | Dry Powder Medicament Inhaler | RUDDIE, ELLIOT S | 3785 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 17505821 | Inhaler System | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 3683 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialNorton (Waterford) Limited has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 8 examiners.
Constantine B Siozopoulos has the most, with 1 of Norton (Waterford) Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
