Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Price Industries Inc. manages a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating that at least one examiner is handling multiple matters. The prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units, showing a consistent level of specialization across the different applications and a broad administrative presence for the company's medical and mechanical filings.
Ryan L Faulkner is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is currently managing 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This represents half of the total 4 pending actions for the company. The remaining 2 actions are split among the other 2 distinct examiners. This concentration of work with one examiner suggests that a significant portion of the company's current medical and mechanical patent strategy is being reviewed by a single individual. For the practitioner, this highlights the importance of consistent advocacy when dealing with this primary examiner while also managing interactions with the other two officials.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAULKNER, RYAN L | 2 | 67.7% | +16.8% |
| BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 1 | 59.5% | +3.7% |
| LEE, AHAM NMN | 1 | 47.6% | +55.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18735423 | AIRFLOW REDIRECTION AIR-HANDLING UNIT | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 31d overdue |
| 18129186 | LUMINAIRE CHILLED BEAM | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 13d |
| 17846256 | DIFFUSER AIR PURIFICATION UNIT | LEE, AHAM NMN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129186 | LUMINAIRE CHILLED BEAM | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 13d |
| 18440321 | Ceiling Diffuser System with a Common Plenum Array of Laminar Airflow Diffusers and a Grid Support Structure | FAULKNER, RYAN L | — |
| 17846256 | DIFFUSER AIR PURIFICATION UNIT | LEE, AHAM NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 2 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18735423 | AIRFLOW REDIRECTION AIR-HANDLING UNIT | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18440321 | Ceiling Diffuser System with a Common Plenum Array of Laminar Airflow Diffusers and a Grid Support Structure | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18129186 | LUMINAIRE CHILLED BEAM | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 17846256 | DIFFUSER AIR PURIFICATION UNIT | LEE, AHAM NMN | 1758 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPrice Industries Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Ryan L Faulkner has the most, with 2 of Price Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
