Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mid-America Machining Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a small but fragmented prosecution pipeline. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
With only 2 pending office actions in total, the data shows that no single examiner or art unit holds a concentration of the company's active patent matters. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners suggests that each individual is reviewing exactly 1 application, while the 2 distinct art units indicate that the matters are being handled in different technical sections of the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 48.6% | +39.3% |
| GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 1 | 61.2% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19461510 | LIGHTWEIGHT BOTTLE | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19461510 | LIGHTWEIGHT BOTTLE | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18843886 | LIGHTWEIGHT CONTAINER | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19461510 | LIGHTWEIGHT BOTTLE | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3754 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2026 |
| 18843886 | LIGHTWEIGHT CONTAINER | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 3735 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMid-America Machining Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Michael Christopher Patterson has the most, with 1 of Mid-America Machining Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
