Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nordic Patent Service works in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering with 6 pending office actions and 100 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 72.15%, indicating that allowance has been reached in a majority of resolved matters but not in all of them. The pending inventory is visible against a comparatively contained application portfolio, making current docket activity an important consideration.
The average of 3.26 office actions per allowance indicates that allowed matters typically involve multiple examination exchanges. Practitioners may therefore need to plan for continued prosecution after an initial action, while also accounting for the lower allowance result shown in the profile. The data supports review of both claim strategy and response timing in this technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 1 | 81.4% | +12.6% |
| NASH, BRIAN D | 1 | 82.0% | +14.0% |
| LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
| PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1 | 56.8% | +42.8% |
| CLARK, AMY LYNN | 1 | 39.2% | +31.1% |
| FRENCH, CORRELL T | 1 | 45.3% | +33.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873926 | CONNECTOR FOR BEVERAGE DISPENSE LINE | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18977066 | MODULAR CADDY FOR CARRYING WINDOW CLEANING ACCESSORIES | NASH, BRIAN D | — |
| 18554391 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF VIRUS-INDUCED DISEASE | CLARK, AMY LYNN | — |
| 18003394 | APPARATUS AND MECHANISM FOR SIMULATING MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS | FRENCH, CORRELL T | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839490 | Exchangeable applicator for inserting a flexible line and a dispensing valve in a beverage tapping head | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 29d |
| 18557833 | ZOSTERA MARINA FIBER OBJECT WITH IMPROVED ACOUSTIC AND THERMAL PROPERTIES | PIERCE, JEREMY R | 61d |
| 18873926 | CONNECTOR FOR BEVERAGE DISPENSE LINE | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
| 18977066 | MODULAR CADDY FOR CARRYING WINDOW CLEANING ACCESSORIES | NASH, BRIAN D | — |
| 18554391 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF VIRUS-INDUCED DISEASE | CLARK, AMY LYNN | — |
| 18003394 | APPARATUS AND MECHANISM FOR SIMULATING MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS | FRENCH, CORRELL T | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Carlsberg Breweries A/S | 2 |
| Maykker Products Aps | 1 |
| Søuld Aps | 1 |
| Qur Medical Aps | 1 |
| SIMtoLIFE B.V. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 2 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1628 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873926 | CONNECTOR FOR BEVERAGE DISPENSE LINE | Carlsberg Breweries A/S | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 3754 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18977066 | MODULAR CADDY FOR CARRYING WINDOW CLEANING ACCESSORIES | Maykker Products Aps | NASH, BRIAN D | 3734 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18839490 | Exchangeable applicator for inserting a flexible line and a dispensing valve in a beverage tapping head | Carlsberg Breweries A/S | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 3754 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18557833 | ZOSTERA MARINA FIBER OBJECT WITH IMPROVED ACOUSTIC AND THERMAL PROPERTIES | Søuld Aps | PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18554391 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF VIRUS-INDUCED DISEASE | Qur Medical Aps | CLARK, AMY LYNN | 1628 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 18003394 | APPARATUS AND MECHANISM FOR SIMULATING MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND METHODS | Simtolife B.V. | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 3715 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial72.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Nordic Patent Service were allowed, across 100 applications in USPTO records.
3.26 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 6 examiners in 5 art units.
