Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
United Coolair LLC is managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 2 distinct art units. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions suggests some technical overlap in the company's mechanical engineering filings.
The busiest examiner, FURDGE, LARRY L, is responsible for 1 pending action. While the 3 pending office actions involve 3 distinct examiners, the concentration in only 2 distinct art units means that at least two examiners are working within the same technical group. This distribution requires the company to address 3 unique examiner personalities while navigating the specific standards of the specialized art units. The prosecution strategy must balance these individual examiner preferences against the broader guidelines of the mechanical engineering groups to advance the 3 pending office actions.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +19.0% |
| FURDGE, LARRY L | 1 | 62.5% | +16.7% |
| NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | 1 | 81.0% | +13.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18932593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MODULATE REFRIGERANT PRESSURE | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033244 | DUAL PURPOSE REFRIGERANT PRESSURE VESSEL | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 19033401 | MODULAR HVAC UNIT CABINET | FURDGE, LARRY 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033244 | DUAL PURPOSE REFRIGERANT PRESSURE VESSEL | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 19033401 | MODULAR HVAC UNIT CABINET | FURDGE, LARRY L | — |
| 18932593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MODULATE REFRIGERANT PRESSURE | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19033244 | DUAL PURPOSE REFRIGERANT PRESSURE VESSEL | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19033401 | MODULAR HVAC UNIT CABINET | FURDGE, LARRY L | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18932593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MODULATE REFRIGERANT PRESSURE | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUnited Coolair LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Elizabeth J Volz has the most, with 1 of United Coolair LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
