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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sub-Zero Group, Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, SULLENS, TAVIA L, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current USPTO activity is highly centralized.
The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the current legal strategy is focused on a specific technical advancement within the mechanical engineering field. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company does not face the complexity of managing multiple examiners or conflicting art unit requirements. SULLENS, TAVIA L is the point of contact for the current portfolio, making this 1 examiner's specific history and tendencies critical to the company's immediate success. This concentration in the 1 distinct art unit ensures that the prosecution remains within a single technical framework. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific standards of the 1 art unit to optimize the path toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULLENS, TAVIA L | 1 | 49.8% | +46.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18791600 | ACCUMULATOR ASSEMBLY, REFRIGERATION SYSTEM HAVING AN ACCUMULATOR ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD OF LIMITING ACCUMILATION OF COMPRESSOR OIL IN SAME | SULLENS, TAVIA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18791600 | ACCUMULATOR ASSEMBLY, REFRIGERATION SYSTEM HAVING AN ACCUMULATOR ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD OF LIMITING ACCUMILATION OF COMPRESSOR OIL IN SAME | SULLENS, TAVIA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18791600 | ACCUMULATOR ASSEMBLY, REFRIGERATION SYSTEM HAVING AN ACCUMULATOR ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD OF LIMITING ACCUMILATION OF COMPRESSOR OIL IN SAME | SULLENS, TAVIA L | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSub-Zero Group, Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tavia L Sullens has the most, with 1 of Sub-Zero Group, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
