Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Direct Pack Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All of these matters are concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly centralized prosecution environment. This concentration suggests that the company's current patent strategy is focused on a specific niche or a single family of applications.
Examiner PERREAULT, ANDREW D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 2 pending office actions. Because this single examiner is responsible for the entire pending workload, the outcomes of these 2 actions will significantly impact the immediate growth of the portfolio. Practitioners should prepare for consistent feedback across these filings due to the lack of examiner diversity.
The presence of only 1 distinct art unit further reinforces the specialized nature of these filings. With 2 pending office actions to navigate, the prosecution team can focus their efforts on the specific standards and precedents of this single art unit. This streamlined structure may simplify the management of responses compared to portfolios spread across multiple units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 2 | 46.7% | +18.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17962895 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLY | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 8d overdue |
| 18524641 | CONTAINER AND METHOD FOR LID SECUREMENT | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17962895 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLY | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 8d overdue |
| 18524641 | CONTAINER AND METHOD FOR LID SECUREMENT | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18524641 | CONTAINER AND METHOD FOR LID SECUREMENT | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 17962895 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLY | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDirect Pack Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Andrew D Perreault has the most, with 2 of Direct Pack Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
