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
Hcp Packaging (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, Jeremy W Carroll, in a distinct art unit. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the entire prosecution effort is focused on this case. Jeremy W Carroll is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's pending work.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of Jeremy W Carroll to ensure a successful outcome. The absence of multiple pending actions means there is no opportunity for cross-case strategy within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The interaction with Jeremy W Carroll will define the immediate success of the company's intellectual property efforts. This 1 pending office action represents the total workload.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARROLL, JEREMY W | 1 | 75.0% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998312 | ALL-PLASTIC LOTION PUMP | CARROLL, JEREMY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18998312 | ALL-PLASTIC LOTION PUMP | CARROLL, JEREMY W | 3754 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialHcp Packaging (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeremy W Carroll has the most, with 1 of Hcp Packaging (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
