Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amada Machinery Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 3 examiners across 2 art units, indicating multiple examination relationships with some art-unit overlap.
MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY handles 1 pending matter and is the busiest examiner. Counsel should manage each application independently, while using the shared art-unit context to review whether claim treatment or technical evidence presents useful internal parallels.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 1 | 83.6% | +12.3% |
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.7% |
| LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 1 | 54.8% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846487 | PRODUCT CARRYING-OUT DEVICE AND PRODUCT CARRYING-OUT METHOD FOR STEEL MATERIAL CUTTING MACHINE | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846487 | PRODUCT CARRYING-OUT DEVICE AND PRODUCT CARRYING-OUT METHOD FOR STEEL MATERIAL CUTTING MACHINE | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | — |
| 18698842 | BAND SAW BLADE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BAND SAW BLADE | DONG, LIANG | — |
| 18567740 | STRUCTURE BODY CUTTING SYSTEM, STRUCTURE BODY CUTTING METHOD, AND CUTTER SYSTEM | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846487 | PRODUCT CARRYING-OUT DEVICE AND PRODUCT CARRYING-OUT METHOD FOR STEEL MATERIAL CUTTING MACHINE | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18698842 | BAND SAW BLADE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BAND SAW BLADE | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18567740 | STRUCTURE BODY CUTTING SYSTEM, STRUCTURE BODY CUTTING METHOD, AND CUTTER SYSTEM | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 3724 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAmada Machinery Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Patrick Hewey Mackey has the most, with 1 of Amada Machinery Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
