Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie - S.r.l. has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are situated within 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but slightly divided technical scope. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is assigned to a different individual at the patent office. This distribution requires practitioners to manage relationships with 3 different examiners across these 2 art units to resolve the current pending matters.
KING, BRIAN M is listed as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 case. The 2 distinct art units suggest that while the technology is within Chemistry & Materials, the specific applications are categorized into at least two different specialized groups. This structure implies that while the portfolio is small, it still requires navigating multiple examiner preferences and art unit cultures. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific technical nuances of each case given the lack of examiner concentration.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KING, BRIAN M | 1 | 70.3% | +23.7% |
| NGUYEN, CAM N | 1 | 84.8% | +12.3% |
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18487439 | RECOVERY OF POTASSIUM AND AMMONIA SALTS BY INDUCED PRECIPITATION WITH CO2 | NGUYEN, CAM N | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207576 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING LIQUIDS HAVING LOW LATENT HEAT OF VAPORIZATION | KING, BRIAN M | — |
| 18255012 | A SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS AND METHOD | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19207576 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING LIQUIDS HAVING LOW LATENT HEAT OF VAPORIZATION | KING, BRIAN M | — |
| 18487439 | RECOVERY OF POTASSIUM AND AMMONIA SALTS BY INDUCED PRECIPITATION WITH CO2 | NGUYEN, CAM N | — |
| 18255012 | A SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS AND METHOD | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19207576 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORING LIQUIDS HAVING LOW LATENT HEAT OF VAPORIZATION | KING, BRIAN M | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 18487439 | RECOVERY OF POTASSIUM AND AMMONIA SALTS BY INDUCED PRECIPITATION WITH CO2 | NGUYEN, CAM N | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18255012 | A SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS AND METHOD | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNuovo Pignone Tecnologie - S.r.l. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Brian M King has the most, with 1 of Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie - S.r.l.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
