Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Njm Packaging Inc. has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. This action is assigned to 1 examiner, HODGE, LINDA J, in 1 distinct art unit. HODGE, LINDA J is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The company's current pending workload is entirely focused on this single examiner and art unit, meaning there is no diversity in examiners or art units to manage for the company's current pending matters.
Practitioners should focus exclusively on the preferences and past decisions of this specific examiner within this art unit. There are no other pending cases to provide additional context or to require coordination. This profile represents a highly focused prosecution effort where the outcome of the entire pending portfolio rests on the resolution of this 1 pending office action. The lack of other pending actions means that all resources can be directed toward this single interaction at the patent office to ensure a successful outcome for the company's mechanical engineering innovations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HODGE, LINDA J | 1 | 87.5% | +27.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19350452 | CAPPING MACHINE WITH AUTOMATIC TORQUE CONTROL | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19350452 | CAPPING MACHINE WITH AUTOMATIC TORQUE CONTROL | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19350452 | CAPPING MACHINE WITH AUTOMATIC TORQUE CONTROL | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2025 |
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