Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cheer Pack North America LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is handled by 1 distinct examiner, HOPPMANN, JOHN MARTIN, and is located in 1 distinct art unit. HOPPMANN, JOHN MARTIN is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action, meaning the prosecution effort is currently consolidated under a single examiner and administrative unit.
The data shows 1 pending office action, which suggests a narrow prosecution pipeline. Since the portfolio involves only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the applicant's success is tied to the specific requirements of these entities. There are no other pending matters in the data to provide a baseline for comparison within the company's own history. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the historical patterns of HOPPMANN, JOHN MARTIN and the standards of the 1 art unit involved. This structure makes the portfolio easy to monitor but increases the impact of the decision-making process of the 1 distinct examiner on the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOPPMANN, JOHN MARTIN | 1 | 50.0% | +40.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18758832 | TETHERED CAP | HOPPMANN, JOHN MARTIN | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18758832 | TETHERED CAP | HOPPMANN, JOHN MARTIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18758832 | TETHERED CAP | HOPPMANN, JOHN MARTIN | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCheer Pack North America LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John Martin Hoppmann has the most, with 1 of Cheer Pack North America LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
