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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mold-Rite Plastics LLC currently has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These 2 actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 pending matter. The prosecution is also split across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the 2 pending applications involve different specialized sub-fields.
YACOB, SISAY is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that there are only 2 pending actions in total, the workload is evenly split between the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution ensures that no single examiner or art unit has a dominant role in the company's current patent prosecution. Practitioners can expect 2 separate tracks of communication, each governed by the specific standards of the 2 different art units involved.
The 1:1 ratio of 2 pending office actions to 2 distinct examiners indicates that there is no overlap in the review process for this portfolio. Sisay Yacob and the other examiner will each provide independent feedback based on the requirements of their respective 2 distinct art units. This structure requires practitioners to manage 2 distinct prosecution strategies simultaneously. The limited number of pending actions allows for a highly focused approach to each individual case within the communications sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRADEN, SHAWN M | 1 | 66.8% | +32.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19223871 | FLAME MITIGATING FLUID DISPENSING CLOSURE | BRADEN, SHAWN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19223871 | FLAME MITIGATING FLUID DISPENSING CLOSURE | BRADEN, SHAWN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19223871 | FLAME MITIGATING FLUID DISPENSING CLOSURE | BRADEN, SHAWN M | 3736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialMold-Rite Plastics LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shawn M Braden has the most, with 1 of Mold-Rite Plastics LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
