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
Omnicare LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 pending office action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for this pending matter.
NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA is the busiest examiner for the company, and the busiest examiner pending count is 1. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total number of 1 pending office action for the portfolio. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a singular point of engagement with the patent office.
Practitioners can observe that the company's current workload consists of only 1 pending office action. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution strategy is currently tied to the specific practices of a single individual. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that there are no other pending matters across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 1 | 30.1% | +39.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19039315 | ADMINISTRATION METHODS FOR ORAL MEDICATIONS | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19039315 | ADMINISTRATION METHODS FOR ORAL MEDICATIONS | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialOmnicare LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Blaine Girma Neway has the most, with 1 of Omnicare LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
