Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mccain Foods Limited has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 4 examiners across 3 art units, showing examiner-level distribution with some art-unit overlap. ALIE, GHASSEM is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
The profile supports a coordinated portfolio review while preserving matter-specific analysis. Multiple examiners may produce different claim-construction or prior-art concerns, while the smaller number of art units suggests that some technical issues may recur within shared examination groups. No single examiner accounts for more than the 1 matter shown.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALIE, GHASSEM | 1 | 69.4% | +32.5% |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.7% | +20.0% |
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.7% |
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 16.3% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708898 | PREMIX FOR FOOD PRODUCTS | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 12d |
| 18939625 | BLADE ASSEMBLY FOR CUTTING FOOD | ALIE, GHASSEM | — |
| 18169490 | FOOD PRODUCTS FROM ROOT VEGETABLES | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708898 | PREMIX FOR FOOD PRODUCTS | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 12d |
| 18376653 | FOOD CUTTER AND METHOD OF CUTTING FOOD | DONG, LIANG | 13d |
| 18939625 | BLADE ASSEMBLY FOR CUTTING FOOD | ALIE, GHASSEM | — |
| 18169490 | FOOD PRODUCTS FROM ROOT VEGETABLES | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18939625 | BLADE ASSEMBLY FOR CUTTING FOOD | ALIE, GHASSEM | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18708898 | PREMIX FOR FOOD PRODUCTS | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1793 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18376653 | FOOD CUTTER AND METHOD OF CUTTING FOOD | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18169490 | FOOD PRODUCTS FROM ROOT VEGETABLES | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMccain Foods Limited has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Ghassem Alie has the most, with 1 of Mccain Foods Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
