Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sanden Corporation has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 5 examiners and 3 art units, indicating that examiner assignments are more varied than the technical classifications.
ESTEVEZ, DAIRON is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. No examiner carries more than one listed action, so the docket calls for multiple examiner-specific prosecution strategies. Counsel should use the shared art-unit information to identify technical themes, while preserving separate response positions for each examination record.
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 (29%) |
| §112 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESTEVEZ, DAIRON | 1 | 69.6% | -11.3% |
| NORMAN, MARC E | 1 | 84.0% | +10.8% |
| SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 1 | 57.3% | +22.3% |
| VAZQUEZ, ANA M | 1 | 80.0% | +17.7% |
| BABAA, NAEL N | 1 | 77.1% | +3.9% |
| MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 1 | 78.2% | +21.0% |
| COMINGS, DANIEL C | 1 | 63.8% | +37.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19120696 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19120171 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | — |
| 19108635 | REFRIGERANT UNIT | VAZQUEZ, ANA M | — |
| 19108276 | REFRIGERANT UNIT | BABAA, NAEL N | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19120696 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
| 19120171 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | — |
| 19108635 | REFRIGERANT UNIT | VAZQUEZ, ANA M | — |
| 19107277 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | — |
| 19107280 | INVERTER-INTEGRATED ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | COMINGS, DANIEL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 5 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19136191 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | ESTEVEZ, DAIRON | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19120696 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE | NORMAN, MARC E | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19120171 | VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING DEVICE | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19108635 | REFRIGERANT UNIT | VAZQUEZ, ANA M | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19108276 | REFRIGERANT UNIT | BABAA, NAEL N | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19107277 | ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19107280 | INVERTER-INTEGRATED ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | COMINGS, DANIEL C | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSanden Corporation has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 7 examiners.
Dairon Estevez has the most, with 1 of Sanden Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
