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
Ningbo Meiyi Packaging Products Co., Ltd. has a focused presence in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This matter is also located within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific and narrow area of prosecution activity for the company.
MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As this is the only pending office action for the company, the entire prosecution strategy is currently centered on this 1 interaction. For a practitioner, this means that the success of the company's current patent efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector depends on successfully navigating the requirements set by MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES. The use of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit minimizes the complexity of the portfolio but maximizes the impact of the examiner's discretion.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 1 | 44.0% | +33.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18417224 | WIPER BLADE | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18417224 | WIPER BLADE | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNingbo Meiyi Packaging Products Co., Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tyler James Mcfarland has the most, with 1 of Ningbo Meiyi Packaging Products Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
