Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sewer Sentry LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is limited to this specific application, suggesting a highly specialized focus for the company's intellectual property efforts.
The busiest examiner, LE, MINH Q, is handling the pending office action. Because the portfolio consists of a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, the company's immediate patent prospects are tied to this single examination path. This represents a focused engagement with the patent office that requires a precise and well-supported technical argument.
The singular nature of the pending action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field allows the company to dedicate its full attention to this prosecution matter. Practitioners should carefully consider the examiner's specific technical expertise within this art unit. The outcome of this case will likely influence the company's future filing strategy in the mechanical engineering domain.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE, MINH Q | 1 | 80.7% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19244785 | VENTED PRECIPITATION GUARDING MANHOLE COVER ASSEMBLY | LE, MINH Q | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19244785 | VENTED PRECIPITATION GUARDING MANHOLE COVER ASSEMBLY | LE, MINH Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19244785 | VENTED PRECIPITATION GUARDING MANHOLE COVER ASSEMBLY | LE, MINH Q | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSewer Sentry LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Minh Q Le has the most, with 1 of Sewer Sentry LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
