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
UTILIZATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, NFP has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload involves 1 distinct examiner, indicating that the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on a single point of contact. The activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, which implies a concentrated technical focus for the pending claims under review. This alignment suggests that the company is pursuing a specific technical advancement within a well-defined niche of the mechanical engineering field.
BARGERO, JOHN E is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count of 1 is equal to the total number of pending actions, this examiner has sole oversight of the company's active applications. Success in this technology area currently depends on addressing the specific requirements of this 1 examiner within the designated art unit. This streamlined prosecution environment allows for a very specific response strategy that accounts for the examiner's unique technical perspective.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARGERO, JOHN E | 1 | 55.4% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18121154 | GRID INDEPENDENT HEATING SYSTEM | BARGERO, JOHN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18121154 | GRID INDEPENDENT HEATING SYSTEM | BARGERO, JOHN E | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUTILIZATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, NFP has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John E Bargero has the most, with 1 of UTILIZATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, NFP's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
