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
The company patent portfolio for M G L F currently includes 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MELARAGNO, MICHAEL. As the only examiner listed, MELARAGNO, MICHAEL is also the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The portfolio includes 0 distinct art units, which limits the ability to compare this activity against broader USPTO trends.
For a practitioner, the presence of 1 pending office action suggests a very limited scope of current prosecution. The focus is entirely on the interaction with 1 distinct examiner. Without multiple actions or examiners to compare, the prosecution strategy is inherently tied to the specific feedback from MELARAGNO, MICHAEL. This concentrated activity requires a direct focus on the requirements of the one pending case.
The absence of data for a technology area means that the practitioner must rely solely on the individual examiner's history and the specific merits of the filing. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, there is no internal baseline for examiner behavior within this specific portfolio. The 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the entirety of the active workload, and the 0 distinct art units indicate a lack of departmental distribution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 1 | 67.5% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19199727 | ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A LIQUID DISPENSER AND A SUPPORT ELEMENT | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19199727 | ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A LIQUID DISPENSER AND A SUPPORT ELEMENT | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19199727 | ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A LIQUID DISPENSER AND A SUPPORT ELEMENT | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 3754 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialM G L F has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Michael Melaragno has the most, with 1 of M G L F's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
