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
Thermal Storage Systems currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio shows 1 pending office action, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution phase. This activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow jurisdictional footprint within the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is WAN, DEMING, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total number of 1 pending office action is the same as this examiner's workload, he handles all of the company's current filings. This alignment suggests that prosecution strategy is presently centralized under a specific point of review.
The concentration of the active docket within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are specialized. Practitioners should note that WAN, DEMING manages the 1 busiest examiner pending action, which represents the full scope of the pending portfolio. This focus allows for a direct prosecution approach without the complexities of navigating multiple examiners or varying art unit preferences.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAN, DEMING | 1 | 76.5% | +42.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658278 | System And Method For Collecting Solar Energy With A Stationary Thermal Storage Device | WAN, DEMING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18658278 | System And Method For Collecting Solar Energy With A Stationary Thermal Storage Device | WAN, DEMING | 3762 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialThermal Storage Systems has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Deming Wan has the most, with 1 of Thermal Storage Systems's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
