Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Waterfurnace International Inc. has 1 pending office action in Computing & Software. The matter is associated with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, providing one examination route.
BARNES-BULLOCK, CRYSTAL JOY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The response can concentrate on that action and address the computing and software issues under the assigned unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNES-BULLOCK, CRYSTAL JOY | 1 | 85.7% | -13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18089981 | SPACE CONDITIONING CONTROL AND MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM | BARNES-BULLOCK, CRYSTAL JOY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2117 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18089981 | SPACE CONDITIONING CONTROL AND MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM | BARNES-BULLOCK, CRYSTAL JOY | 2117 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialWaterfurnace International Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Crystal Joy Barnes-Bullock has the most, with 1 of Waterfurnace International Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
