Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Phononic Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. STICKEL, JOSHUA MATTHEW is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners indicates that each active case is being handled by a different individual. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, no single examiner is responsible for more than half of the company's current workload. The use of 1 distinct art unit shows that both matters are being processed within the same technical group at the patent office.
For a practitioner, this dispersion across the distinct examiners means that the company must adapt its arguments to the specific requirements of two different officials. However, the presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the underlying technologies are closely related. This variety in examiners provides a base of feedback within a single technical group, which can be useful for identifying consistent trends or divergent standards across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STICKEL, JOSHUA MATTHEW | 1 | — | — |
| BRADFORD, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.1% | +21.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908218 | ACTIVE VAPORIZATION OF MOISTURE IN A THERMOELECTRIC MODULE OR SUBSYSTEM | STICKEL, JOSHUA MATTHEW | — |
| 18783329 | AUTO-DEFROST SYSTEM IN ACTIVELY COOLED TOTE | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18783329 | AUTO-DEFROST SYSTEM IN ACTIVELY COOLED TOTE | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18908218 | ACTIVE VAPORIZATION OF MOISTURE IN A THERMOELECTRIC MODULE OR SUBSYSTEM | STICKEL, JOSHUA MATTHEW | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18783329 | AUTO-DEFROST SYSTEM IN ACTIVELY COOLED TOTE | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | 3763 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPhononic Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Joshua Matthew Stickel has the most, with 1 of Phononic Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
