Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sun-Ice Energy Pte. Ltd. is currently prosecuting 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical classification for the company's current filings. The concentration of the 2 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's innovations in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are technically related.
HARRY E ARANT is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed equally, with each examiner managing one action. This arrangement allows the company to receive feedback from 2 distinct examiners while remaining within the same 1 distinct art unit. While the company interacts with 2 distinct examiners, the single art unit provides a consistent administrative framework.
The balance of multiple examiners in a single art unit is a key feature of their current prosecution profile. Practitioners should prepare for the individual preferences of the 2 distinct examiners while navigating the 1 distinct art unit. This profile indicates a small but technically focused set of active patent applications. The company's immediate prosecution goals are tied to the current pending workload currently under review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARANT, HARRY E | 1 | 49.6% | +21.4% |
| LANE, DEVON | 1 | 55.8% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19103756 | DEVICE FOR COOLING A DATA CENTER COMPUTER SERVER BY USING A PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL | ARANT, HARRY E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686150 | HEATING AND/OR COOLING UNIT WITH PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL | LANE, DEVON | 33d |
| 19103756 | DEVICE FOR COOLING A DATA CENTER COMPUTER SERVER BY USING A PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL | ARANT, HARRY E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103756 | DEVICE FOR COOLING A DATA CENTER COMPUTER SERVER BY USING A PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL | ARANT, HARRY E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18686150 | HEATING AND/OR COOLING UNIT WITH PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL | LANE, DEVON | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
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