Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Sanden Corporation

4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 2 62.2% +29.3%
FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 1 77.1% +30.7%
BRADFORD, JONATHAN 1 76.0% +21.2%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18281264 AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS HAVING AN INVERTER BETWEEN AN AXIAL FAN AND AN EVAPORATOR BRADFORD, JONATHAN 161d overdue
18835656 ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 93d overdue
18850803 INVERTER-INTEGRATED ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 86d overdue
19118697 ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3746 3
3763 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19118697 ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Apr 04, 2025
18850803 INVERTER-INTEGRATED ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 3746 §103 Final Rejection 86d overdue Pending Sep 25, 2024
18835656 ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S 3746 §103 Final Rejection 93d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2024
18281264 AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS HAVING AN INVERTER BETWEEN AN AXIAL FAN AND AN EVAPORATOR BRADFORD, JONATHAN 3763 §112 Final Rejection 161d overdue Pending Sep 08, 2023

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