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
Powerex-Iwata Air Technology Inc. has 2 pending office actions focused in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The prosecution work is spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that each matter is being handled in a unique administrative environment. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's technology involves different specialized classifications within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The busiest examiner for the company is FINK, THOMAS ANDREW. This examiner is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action represents a portion of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the portfolio. Because there are 2 distinct examiners, the workload is shared between different officials. This arrangement requires the company to manage 2 separate prosecution tracks, each subject to the specific practices of the 2 distinct art units involved in the review process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.6% |
| PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 1 | 62.0% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19452133 | Multi-Vacuum Enclosure | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | — |
| 18737493 | COOLING ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSOR MOTOR ASSEMBLY | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19452133 | Multi-Vacuum Enclosure | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2026 |
| 18737493 | COOLING ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSOR MOTOR ASSEMBLY | PRUITT, JUSTIN A | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPowerex-Iwata Air Technology Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Thomas Andrew Fink has the most, with 1 of Powerex-Iwata Air Technology Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
