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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
M&M Machinery Services Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is in a distinct art unit and is assigned to a distinct examiner. With only the pending action, the company's current prosecution profile is highly centralized, focusing all activity on a single matter. This allows for a very specific and targeted prosecution strategy that is not fragmented across different technical groups.
TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. With only the pending action, a distinct examiner, and a distinct art unit, the prosecution profile is very centralized. The single examiner and art unit define the current landscape for the company's pending matters. Practitioners should focus entirely on the preferences of the examiner and the standards of the art unit, as they represent the totality of the company's current pending office actions. This concentration ensures that all efforts are aligned with the specific requirements of the examiner within the art unit, as there is only 1 pending office action to manage.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | 1 | 75.1% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19018727 | VENT TUBE FOR BOTTLING MACHINE AND RELATED METHODS | TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19018727 | VENT TUBE FOR BOTTLING MACHINE AND RELATED METHODS | TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialM&M Machinery Services Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Marina Annette Tietjen has the most, with 1 of M&M Machinery Services Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
