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
Packaged LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a single distinct examiner, NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA, and is being reviewed in a single art unit. The data shows a very concentrated prosecution profile, as the pending office action represents the company's entire current activity in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The busiest examiner, NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA, is handling 1 pending action. Since there is only a single examiner and a single art unit, the prosecution process is centralized. This relationship between the pending action and the examiner means that the company's immediate patent objectives are subject to the evaluation of a single individual within a single specialized unit.
For practitioners, this indicates a need to focus specifically on the examination style of the assigned examiner. With only a single art unit involved, there is no need to navigate different departmental standards. The current workload in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is the sole focus of the portfolio data, suggesting a straightforward and singular prosecution path.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 | 30.2% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792482 | TAPELESS CLOSURE MECHANISM FOR SHIPPING BOXES | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 149d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18792482 | TAPELESS CLOSURE MECHANISM FOR SHIPPING BOXES | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 149d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
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