Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Meere Company Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution activity is limited to this single technical interaction. This focus on 1 pending office action suggests a very specific and targeted patenting strategy for the company's mechanical engineering developments.
LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the only pending office action currently active for the company. The outcome of the company's current patent application process is tied to this specific examiner's evaluation. Practitioners should monitor the examiner's tendencies within the 1 assigned art unit to better navigate the prosecution of this active matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | 1 | 66.7% | +66.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18031453 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING WAFER | LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18031453 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING WAFER | LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18031453 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING WAFER | LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMeere Company Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
John Michael Larson has the most, with 1 of Meere Company Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
