Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bobst Mex S.A. currently manages 11 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 11 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 11 pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution indicates a lack of examiner consolidation across the current portfolio. Such a decentralized approach requires the company to navigate 11 different examination styles, which can lead to a diverse range of prosecution outcomes for its mechanical engineering filings.
The company's prosecution activity is spread across 8 distinct art units. With 11 pending office actions, the company's work is distributed through 8 different specialized divisions. This presence in 8 art units suggests that the company's mechanical engineering filings cover several technical classifications. The distribution across 8 units relative to 11 actions also implies that most art units are handling only one or two cases, further emphasizing the decentralized nature of the company's current patent office interactions.
HIMCHAN SONG is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. As all 11 distinct examiners are managing exactly 1 action each, the workload is uniform across the 11 pending matters. The management of 11 pending actions in 8 art units reflects the company's ongoing patent efforts. This structure indicates that the company's current mechanical engineering portfolio is being reviewed by a wide and varied group of specialists within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (31%) |
| §112 only | 2 (15%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMAM, TANZIM | 1 | 71.2% | +27.2% |
| SONG, HIMCHAN | 1 | 86.4% | +12.2% |
| SEVERSON, JEREMY R | 1 | 87.7% | +10.8% |
| SHUTTY, DAVID G | 1 | 69.0% | +12.7% |
| SEIF, DARIUSH | 1 | 70.5% | +6.2% |
| FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | 1 | 79.1% | +14.2% |
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 1 | 42.7% | +6.0% |
| NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 1 | 76.5% | +24.2% |
| KOETH, MICHELLE M | 1 | 76.7% | +16.5% |
| MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 1 | 63.4% | +27.5% |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18262600 | SHEET MATERIAL PROCESSING TOOL, SHEET MATERIAL PROCESSING STATION, AND SHEET MATERIAL PROCESSING MACHINE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 45d overdue |
| 18684022 | PACKAGING MATERIAL PROCESSING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A PACKAGING MATERIAL PROCESSING MACHINE | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 22d |
| 18874852 | BLANK JOINING MODULE WITH IMPROVED ERGONOMICS | SHUTTY, DAVID G | — |
| 18874877 | ALIGNMENT MODULE WITH AUTOMATIC PRESSURE CONTROL | SEIF, DARIUSH | — |
| 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18684022 | PACKAGING MATERIAL PROCESSING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A PACKAGING MATERIAL PROCESSING MACHINE | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 22d |
| 18572926 | SHEET PROCESSING MACHINE | KOETH, MICHELLE M | 55d |
| 19422883 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PATCHING SHEET AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING SYSTEM | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18874852 | BLANK JOINING MODULE WITH IMPROVED ERGONOMICS | SHUTTY, DAVID G | — |
| 18874204 | INK CONDITIONER FOR AN INKJET PRINTER | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | — |
| 18563659 | CLAMPING DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING A REEL HAVING A TUBULAR CORE | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 4 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19422883 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PATCHING SHEET AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING SYSTEM | IMAM, TANZIM | 3731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2025 |
| 19422918 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PATCHING SHEET AND A CARDBOARD PROCESSING SYSTEM | SONG, HIMCHAN | 3731 | DP | 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 |
| 18874852 | BLANK JOINING MODULE WITH IMPROVED ERGONOMICS | SHUTTY, DAVID G | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18874877 | ALIGNMENT MODULE WITH AUTOMATIC PRESSURE CONTROL | SEIF, DARIUSH | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18874204 | INK CONDITIONER FOR AN INKJET PRINTER | FIDLER, SHELBY LEE | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18643148 | INDUSTRIAL PRINTING DEVICE AND INDUSTRIAL PRINTING PROCESS | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18684022 | PACKAGING MATERIAL PROCESSING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A PACKAGING MATERIAL PROCESSING MACHINE | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 3725 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18572926 | SHEET PROCESSING MACHINE | KOETH, MICHELLE M | 2671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18563659 | CLAMPING DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING A REEL HAVING A TUBULAR CORE | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18550373 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A CARDBOARD WITH A LASER BEAM | CHAU, ALAIN | 3741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18262600 | SHEET MATERIAL PROCESSING TOOL, SHEET MATERIAL PROCESSING STATION, AND SHEET MATERIAL PROCESSING MACHINE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 17455121 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTHENTICITY INFORMATION | LAKHANI, ANDREW C | 3629 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2021 |
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