Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sloan Valve Company has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 3 examiners and 3 art units, indicating separate prosecution settings.
BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data supports application-specific review rather than reliance on a recurring examiner pattern.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 77.0% | +20.7% |
| KIM, KIHO | 1 | 85.4% | +4.4% |
| NGUYEN, TUAN N | 1 | 68.1% | +26.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19034816 | MINIATURIZED DIFFUSER-DRIVEN ACTIVE INFRARED (IR) SENSOR | KIM, KIHO | — |
| 18623748 | Pressurized Flush Tank Assembly | NGUYEN, TUAN 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19061508 | System and Method for Run-On Detection | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | — |
| 18623748 | Pressurized Flush Tank Assembly | NGUYEN, TUAN N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19061508 | System and Method for Run-On Detection | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19034816 | MINIATURIZED DIFFUSER-DRIVEN ACTIVE INFRARED (IR) SENSOR | KIM, KIHO | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18623748 | Pressurized Flush Tank Assembly | NGUYEN, TUAN N | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSloan Valve Company has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Christopher D Ballman has the most, with 1 of Sloan Valve Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
