Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bobst Mex S.A. has 10 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Those matters involve 10 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, so examiner coverage is as broad as the pending-action count while art-unit coverage is more focused.
SONG, HIMCHAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than one matter in the available profile, which supports handling the docket through distributed examiner-specific review rather than a single concentrated response strategy.
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 (8%) |
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| §112 only | 3 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SONG, HIMCHAN | 1 | 86.5% | +11.9% |
| IMAM, TANZIM | 1 | 71.2% | +27.2% |
| SEVERSON, JEREMY R | 1 | 87.7% | +10.7% |
| WEEKS, GLORIA R | 1 | 70.4% | +12.4% |
| SEIF, DARIUSH | 1 | 70.7% | +6.1% |
| SHUTTY, DAVID G | 1 | 69.1% | +12.9% |
| FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | 1 | 79.1% | +14.3% |
| NGUYEN, LAM S | 1 | 78.9% | +0.3% |
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 1 | 42.7% | +6.2% |
| RUDOLPH, VINCENT M | 1 | 47.2% | +41.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19422918 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PATCHING SHEET AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING SYSTEM | SONG, HIMCHAN | — |
| 19480112 | METHOD FOR HANDLING SHEETS BY A DIE CUTTING MACHINE AND A DIE CUTTING MACHINE | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19131326 | A SUPPORTING DEVICE AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING MACHINE | WEEKS, GLORIA R | — |
| 18874877 | ALIGNMENT MODULE WITH AUTOMATIC PRESSURE CONTROL | SEIF, DARIUSH | — |
| 18874852 | BLANK JOINING MODULE WITH IMPROVED ERGONOMICS | SHUTTY, DAVID G | — |
| 18874204 | INK CONDITIONER FOR AN INKJET PRINTER | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | — |
| 17455121 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTHENTICITY INFORMATION | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572926 | SHEET PROCESSING MACHINE | RUDOLPH, VINCENT M | 55d |
| 19422918 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PATCHING SHEET AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING SYSTEM | SONG, HIMCHAN | — |
| 19422883 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PATCHING SHEET AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING SYSTEM | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
| 19480112 | METHOD FOR HANDLING SHEETS BY A DIE CUTTING MACHINE AND A DIE CUTTING MACHINE | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | — |
| 19131326 | A SUPPORTING DEVICE AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING MACHINE | WEEKS, GLORIA R | — |
| 18874852 | BLANK JOINING MODULE WITH IMPROVED ERGONOMICS | SHUTTY, DAVID G | — |
| 18874204 | INK CONDITIONER FOR AN INKJET PRINTER | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 5 |
| 2853 | 3 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19422918 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PATCHING SHEET AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING SYSTEM | SONG, HIMCHAN | 3731 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2025 |
| 19422883 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PATCHING SHEET AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING SYSTEM | IMAM, TANZIM | 3731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2025 |
| 19480112 | METHOD FOR HANDLING SHEETS BY A DIE CUTTING MACHINE AND A DIE CUTTING MACHINE | SEVERSON, JEREMY R | 1759 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2025 |
| 19131326 | A SUPPORTING DEVICE AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING MACHINE | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 18874877 | ALIGNMENT MODULE WITH AUTOMATIC PRESSURE CONTROL | SEIF, DARIUSH | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18874852 | BLANK JOINING MODULE WITH IMPROVED ERGONOMICS | SHUTTY, DAVID G | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18874204 | INK CONDITIONER FOR AN INKJET PRINTER | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | 2853 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18864993 | METHOD FOR DETECTING MALFUNCTIONAL NOZZLES IN A PRINTING HEAD AND PRINTING DEVICE | NGUYEN, LAM S | 2853 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18643148 | INDUSTRIAL PRINTING DEVICE AND INDUSTRIAL PRINTING PROCESS | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18572926 | SHEET PROCESSING MACHINE | RUDOLPH, VINCENT M | 2671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18550373 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A CARDBOARD WITH A LASER BEAM | CHAU, ALAIN | 3741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 17455121 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTHENTICITY INFORMATION | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 3629 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialBobst Mex S.A. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 12 examiners.
Himchan Song has the most, with 1 of Bobst Mex S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
