Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Marel A/S is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is reviewed by a different person. The portfolio's current activity spans 2 distinct art units, showing some technical concentration despite the examiner variety.
The busiest examiner, PARSLEY, DAVID J, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is spread across the assigned staff without any 1 individual managing multiple cases. This suggests that no 1 examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current patent applications.
With 2 distinct art units involved, multiple pending office actions must share a unit or be closely related in technical scope. This overlap in art units contrasted with the 3 distinct examiners indicates that the patent office is utilizing multiple resources within a limited number of technical groups to process these filings. Practitioners should prepare for varied examiner styles across the 2 units. The 3 pending office actions represent a moderate but distributed workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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% | +48.9% |
| PARSLEY, DAVID J | 1 | 54.0% | +28.7% |
| LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 1 | 54.9% | +30.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 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 | — |
| 18992926 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PORTION CUTTING OF MEAT ITEMS | PARSLEY, DAVID J | — |
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 3 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 | — |
| 18992926 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PORTION CUTTING OF MEAT ITEMS | PARSLEY, DAVID J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18992926 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PORTION CUTTING OF MEAT ITEMS | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 3643 | §101§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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