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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Meinan Machinery Works Inc. maintains a focused presence in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action, which constitutes its entire active prosecution workload. This matter is being processed through 1 distinct art unit and is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, suggesting that the company's current patenting activity is highly specialized. This level of concentration indicates that the company is pursuing a specific mechanical or medical innovation at this stage.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is TREMARCHE, CONNOR J., who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since this 1 pending office action is the only one currently active, the examiner's interpretation of the claims will be critical to the portfolio's success. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the prosecution landscape, as there are no competing examiner perspectives to reconcile. Practitioners should focus on the specific mechanical standards relevant to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field to address the concerns raised in this 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1 | 65.7% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18159549 | VENEER DEWATERING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DEWATERING VENEER | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18159549 | VENEER DEWATERING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DEWATERING VENEER | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMeinan Machinery Works Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Connor J. Tremarche has the most, with 1 of Meinan Machinery Works Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
