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
Marel A/S has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners and 1 art unit, so the portfolio has examiner diversity within a single art-unit setting.
DO, NHAT CHIEU Q is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel can coordinate art-unit strategy while treating the two examiner records separately and monitoring each action for distinct objections.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 1 | 64.0% | +48.7% |
| LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 1 | 54.8% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17428051 | CONTROLLING ANGULAR SPEED OF ECCENTRIC MOVEMENT OF CIRCULAR BLADE | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 15d |
| 18992909 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SORTING AND ORIENTING FOOD ITEMS | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17428051 | CONTROLLING ANGULAR SPEED OF ECCENTRIC MOVEMENT OF CIRCULAR BLADE | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 15d |
| 18992909 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SORTING AND ORIENTING FOOD ITEMS | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992909 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SORTING AND ORIENTING FOOD ITEMS | DO, NHAT CHIEU Q | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 17428051 | CONTROLLING ANGULAR SPEED OF ECCENTRIC MOVEMENT OF CIRCULAR BLADE | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 03, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialMarel A/S has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Nhat Chieu Q Do has the most, with 1 of Marel A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
