Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
J & M Manufacturing Co. Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a narrow technical focus. However, the 2 actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. TIMOTHY LEWIS MAUST is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
This scenario allows the company to see how two different examiners in the same art unit handle their applications. While the technical standards of the 1 art unit are consistent, the 2 distinct examiners may have different procedural styles. Practitioners should compare the feedback from both of the 2 pending office actions to identify effective prosecution tactics.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 1 | 81.8% | +10.3% |
| GENTILE, ALEXANDER VINCENT | 1 | 67.4% | +5.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19293515 | AUTOMATED GRAIN FILLING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19293515 | AUTOMATED GRAIN FILLING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19293515 | AUTOMATED GRAIN FILLING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 18947492 | GRAIN CART MULTIPURPOSE DISPLAY AND RELATED METHODS | GENTILE, ALEXANDER VINCENT | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialJ & M Manufacturing Co. Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Timothy Lewis Maust has the most, with 1 of J & M Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
