Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mcelroy Manufacturing Inc. maintains 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners across a matching number of distinct art units, indicating that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's current filings cover distinct technical aspects that require separate specialized reviews.
MCNALLY, DANIEL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This highlights a distributed prosecution environment where no single examiner holds a majority of the pending office actions. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution of the pending matters will proceed independently. The lack of concentration under any one examiner or art unit ensures that the portfolio's outcomes are not dependent on a single person's perspective, providing a diversified risk profile for the company's intellectual property.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1 | 68.2% | +13.3% |
| NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 1 | 77.0% | +31.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18370867 | Rotating-Base Multi-Articulable Machine for Fusing Polyolefin Pipe | MCNALLY, DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18370867 | Rotating-Base Multi-Articulable Machine for Fusing Polyolefin Pipe | MCNALLY, DANIEL | — |
| 17728408 | Modular Carriage Assembly for the Fusion of Polyolefin Pipes | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18370867 | Rotating-Base Multi-Articulable Machine for Fusing Polyolefin Pipe | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 17728408 | Modular Carriage Assembly for the Fusion of Polyolefin Pipes | NEIBAUR, ROBERT F | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMcelroy Manufacturing Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Daniel Mcnally has the most, with 1 of Mcelroy Manufacturing Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
