Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • 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
Mccain Foods Limited currently has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending case is being reviewed by a different official. This arrangement requires a tailored approach for each of the separate examiner interactions currently underway.
The company's active filings are situated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting a technical focus that is split between specialized areas. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ALIE, GHASSEM, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Given that the workload is spread across multiple examiners, the busiest official manages 1 pending office action.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 distinct art units means that the prosecution strategy is not centralized. The busiest examiner, ALIE, GHASSEM, is responsible for a portion of the total pending matters. This distribution ensures that the progress of the portfolio is subject to the independent review of different individuals at the patent office within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALIE, GHASSEM | 1 | 69.3% | +32.6% |
| MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 1 | 23.9% | +19.1% |
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18708898 | PREMIX FOR FOOD PRODUCTS | MCNEIL, JENNIFER C | 12d |
| 18939625 | BLADE ASSEMBLY FOR CUTTING FOOD | ALIE, GHASSEM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 1793 | 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 |
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