Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Sunmax Products Inc.

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

Analysis

Sunmax Products Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very focused and limited prosecution profile at the present time. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit for the pending work confirms that the company's current legal efforts are not spread across multiple technical divisions.

The busiest examiner for the portfolio is NGUYEN, TUAN N, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the entire pending workload for the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings is concentrated under this single individual's review. This represents the full extent of the company's current active matters at the patent office. The matter assigned to NGUYEN, TUAN N constitutes the entirety of the company's active prosecution pipeline.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, TUAN N 1 68.1% +26.3%

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18917459 EXPANDABLE ANCHOR BOLT SYSTEM AND TOILET INSTALLATION METHOD NGUYEN, TUAN N —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18917459 EXPANDABLE ANCHOR BOLT SYSTEM AND TOILET INSTALLATION METHOD NGUYEN, TUAN N —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3754 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18917459 EXPANDABLE ANCHOR BOLT SYSTEM AND TOILET INSTALLATION METHOD NGUYEN, TUAN N 3754 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 16, 2024

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