1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mchale Engineering currently has 1 pending office action under review. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FABIAN-KOVACS, ARPAD. As the busiest examiner for the company, FABIAN-KOVACS, ARPAD is responsible for the 1 pending action, which constitutes the entirety of the company's current pending prosecution activity. The data shows 0 distinct art units for this portfolio, indicating that the action has not been categorized into a specific unit in this record. This singular focus on one examiner represents a narrow and direct engagement with the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FABIAN-KOVACS, ARPAD | 1 | 84.9% | +3.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19029978 | Cotton harvester with continuous baling and a method for harvesting cotton | FABIAN-KOVACS, ARPAD | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19029978 | Cotton harvester with continuous baling and a method for harvesting cotton | FABIAN-KOVACS, ARPAD | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialMchale Engineering has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 0 art units and 1 examiners.
Arpad Fabian-Kovacs has the most, with 1 of Mchale Engineering's pending office actions.
