Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Plusline S R L has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The actions involve 4 examiners and 2 art units, indicating examiner-level separation within a smaller number of art-unit assignments.
SMITH, JACOB A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should track each examiner response separately while accounting for the shared art-unit structure.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JACOB A | 1 | 82.3% | +16.9% |
| AHMED, MOBEEN | 1 | 61.3% | +8.4% |
| JALLOW, EYAMINDAE CHOSSAN | 1 | 78.5% | +20.1% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18510729 | SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD FOR PACKAGING PAPER ROLLS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 84d |
| 19117457 | PROCESSING AND PALLETIZING UNIT FOR PACKAGED PRODUCTS | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18510729 | SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD FOR PACKAGING PAPER ROLLS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 84d |
| 19117457 | PROCESSING AND PALLETIZING UNIT FOR PACKAGED PRODUCTS | SMITH, JACOB A | — |
| 18724618 | Cartoning machine | JALLOW, EYAMINDAE CHOSSAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 3 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19117457 | PROCESSING AND PALLETIZING UNIT FOR PACKAGED PRODUCTS | SMITH, JACOB A | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 18838632 | Cartoning machine | AHMED, MOBEEN | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18724618 | Cartoning machine | JALLOW, EYAMINDAE CHOSSAN | 3700 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18510729 | SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD FOR PACKAGING PAPER ROLLS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 84d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPlusline S R L has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Jacob A Smith has the most, with 1 of Plusline S R L's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
