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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pactiv LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of work suggests a highly focused prosecution effort rather than a broad, multi-front strategy across different USPTO divisions.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is DONG, LIANG, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this is the only active matter, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload. Practitioners should note that the prosecution experience is centralized, meaning the outcomes of this specific interaction will define the current success rate for the portfolio.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the legal team can focus its technical arguments on the specific standards and precedents of that unit. The presence of 1 distinct examiner means that the relationship and communication style established with DONG, LIANG will be the primary factor in resolving the current active matter. This streamlined profile indicates a portfolio in a very specific stage of development.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416449 | UTENSIL | DONG, LIANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18416449 | UTENSIL | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPactiv LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Liang Dong has the most, with 1 of Pactiv LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
