Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sit S P A has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 examiners within 1 art unit, so prosecution has multiple examiner relationships in a shared technical setting.
SHIRSAT, VIVEK K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can coordinate the mechanical position at the art-unit level while tailoring responses to each examiner.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAVANI, AVINASH A | 1 | 74.7% | +20.7% |
| SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 1 | 74.3% | +27.9% |
| LIN, KO-WEI | 1 | 76.1% | +20.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING COMBUSTION IN COMBUSTIBLE GAS BURNER APPARATUS | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18723257 | DEVICE FOR THE DELIVERY OF A COMBUSTIBLE GASEOUS MIXTURE AND PROCEDURE | SAVANI, AVINASH A | — |
| 18722660 | DEVICE FOR THE DELIVERY OF A COMBUSTIBLE GASEOUS MIXTURE AND PROCEDURE | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | — |
| 18721834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING COMBUSTION IN COMBUSTIBLE GAS BURNER APPARATUS | LIN, KO-WEI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723257 | DEVICE FOR THE DELIVERY OF A COMBUSTIBLE GASEOUS MIXTURE AND PROCEDURE | SAVANI, AVINASH A | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18722660 | DEVICE FOR THE DELIVERY OF A COMBUSTIBLE GASEOUS MIXTURE AND PROCEDURE | SHIRSAT, VIVEK K | 3762 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18721834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING COMBUSTION IN COMBUSTIBLE GAS BURNER APPARATUS | LIN, KO-WEI | 3762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSit S P A has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Avinash A Savani has the most, with 1 of Sit S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
