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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Spark Thermionics Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution effort is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This data shows that the company's current patent office activity is focused, with no distribution across different technical or administrative groups.
JONES, LOGAN P is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in the entire portfolio, JONES, LOGAN P is the sole official responsible for the company's active matters. The outcome of the company's current prosecution is therefore entirely tied to this single examiner's evaluation within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's pending intellectual property is concentrated within a specific technical niche. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific procedural and substantive requirements of this single art unit and examiner. Without other pending office actions to manage, the prosecution strategy remains centered on the feedback from JONES, LOGAN P.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, LOGAN P | 1 | 43.0% | +31.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18755316 | BURNER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION | JONES, LOGAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18755316 | BURNER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION | JONES, LOGAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18755316 | BURNER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION | JONES, LOGAN P | 3762 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSpark Thermionics Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Logan P Jones has the most, with 1 of Spark Thermionics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
