Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
M E P Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S P A is managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 4 of these cases are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific and consistent technical focus for the company's mechanical filings. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, which means that while the art unit is the same, the individual reviewers are all different. This consistency in art unit assignment may allow for some strategic overlap in technical arguments.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is NGUYEN, JIMMY T, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This reflects the even distribution of the 4 pending office actions among the 4 distinct examiners. For practitioners, the concentration in 1 distinct art unit is a key factor, even though they must navigate the individual preferences of 4 different examiners for the 4 active matters. Success depends on understanding the specific culture of the single art unit while tailoring arguments to each official.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 1 | 76.4% | +23.6% |
| TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 50.8% | +56.0% |
| SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 1 | 78.5% | +17.1% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18847913 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STRAIGHTENING A METAL WIRE | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | — |
| 18834527 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO COLLECT PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR METAL PRODUCTS, FROM A WORK MACHINE | TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030406 | DRAWING UNIT AND CORRESPONDING METHOD FOR METAL PRODUCTS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 156d overdue |
| 18847913 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STRAIGHTENING A METAL WIRE | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | — |
| 18834527 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO COLLECT PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR METAL PRODUCTS, FROM A WORK MACHINE | TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 18717265 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BENDING OBLONG METAL PRODUCTS | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18847913 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STRAIGHTENING A METAL WIRE | NGUYEN, JIMMY T | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 18834527 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO COLLECT PRODUCTS, IN PARTICULAR METAL PRODUCTS, FROM A WORK MACHINE | TEMPLETON, CHRISTOPHER L | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18717265 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BENDING OBLONG METAL PRODUCTS | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18030406 | DRAWING UNIT AND CORRESPONDING METHOD FOR METAL PRODUCTS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 156d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialM E P Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S P A has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
Jimmy T Nguyen has the most, with 1 of M E P Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
