Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Belvac Production Machinery Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing broader examiner distribution than technical-group distribution.
LAUX, DAVID J is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner represents the clearest concentration in the docket. Counsel should review the two matters for shared procedural or claim issues, while maintaining separate strategies for the remaining examiners and the 4 art units.
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 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUX, DAVID J | 2 | 65.2% | +28.5% |
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 1 | 79.1% | +10.8% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1 | 65.7% | +27.8% |
| WAN, DEMING | 1 | 76.5% | +42.2% |
| PERRIN, JOSEPH L | 1 | 77.2% | +21.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684488 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR AN EARLY DETECTION OF A MALFUNCTION OF A CONVEYOR UNIT OF A CONVEYOR SYSTEM OF AN OVEN, AND OVEN COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE SUCH SYSTEM | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | — |
| 18684448 | PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING METAL CANS | LAUX, DAVID J | — |
| 18684257 | DRYING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRYING CONTAINERS HAVING AT LEAST ONE CONTAINER PROPERTY | LAUX, DAVID J | — |
| 18580589 | DRYING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRYING CONTAINER UNITS EXHIBITING SOLVENT | WAN, DEMING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19002198 | SERVO-CONTROLLED MACHINE LINE | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
| 18684488 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR AN EARLY DETECTION OF A MALFUNCTION OF A CONVEYOR UNIT OF A CONVEYOR SYSTEM OF AN OVEN, AND OVEN COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE SUCH SYSTEM | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | — |
| 18684448 | PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING METAL CANS | LAUX, DAVID J | — |
| 18684257 | DRYING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRYING CONTAINERS HAVING AT LEAST ONE CONTAINER PROPERTY | LAUX, DAVID J | — |
| 18580589 | DRYING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRYING CONTAINER UNITS EXHIBITING SOLVENT | WAN, DEMING | — |
| 18571029 | CLEANING SYSTEM FOR CLEANING CONTAINER UNITS, DRYING APPARATUS FOR DRYING, AND METHOD | PERRIN, JOSEPH L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 4 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002198 | SERVO-CONTROLLED MACHINE LINE | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 3653 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18684488 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR AN EARLY DETECTION OF A MALFUNCTION OF A CONVEYOR UNIT OF A CONVEYOR SYSTEM OF AN OVEN, AND OVEN COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE SUCH SYSTEM | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 3762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18684448 | PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING METAL CANS | LAUX, DAVID J | 3762 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18684257 | DRYING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRYING CONTAINERS HAVING AT LEAST ONE CONTAINER PROPERTY | LAUX, DAVID J | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18580589 | DRYING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRYING CONTAINER UNITS EXHIBITING SOLVENT | WAN, DEMING | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18571029 | CLEANING SYSTEM FOR CLEANING CONTAINER UNITS, DRYING APPARATUS FOR DRYING, AND METHOD | PERRIN, JOSEPH L | 1711 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBelvac Production Machinery Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
David J Laux has the most, with 2 of Belvac Production Machinery Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
