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
Therm-X Of California Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. PAIK, SANG YEOP is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The prosecution activity is currently limited to this individual examiner and specific art unit.
This singular focus means that the company's current patent strategy is concentrated on a single point of contact within the patent office. For a practitioner, this provides an opportunity to tailor the prosecution approach specifically to the preferences of 1 distinct examiner. Since there are no other pending matters, the outcome of this 1 pending office action will significantly impact the company's immediate intellectual property goals in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented is highly specialized. Without other examiners or units involved, there is no internal comparison for prosecution speed or allowance rates within the company's portfolio. Success in this matter depends entirely on navigating the requirements of the 1 distinct examiner currently assigned to the case. This concentrated profile allows for a highly specific and dedicated prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAIK, SANG YEOP | 1 | 65.5% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751143 | HIGH TEMPERATURE ALUMINUM NITRIDE HEATER PEDESTAL WITH MULTI-ZONE CAPABILITY | PAIK, SANG YEOP | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18751143 | HIGH TEMPERATURE ALUMINUM NITRIDE HEATER PEDESTAL WITH MULTI-ZONE CAPABILITY | PAIK, SANG YEOP | 3761 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTherm-X Of California Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sang Yeop Paik has the most, with 1 of Therm-X Of California Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
