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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Poppack LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused prosecution path for the company's current intellectual property. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the pending innovation is specialized within a narrow technical field of mechanical engineering.
The busiest examiner for the company is MELARAGNO, MICHAEL, who oversees 1 pending office action. Since the company's current activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner, the outcome of the prosecution depends on the specific interpretations and requirements of this individual. This lack of examiner diversity means that the applicant's current experience is shaped by a single point of contact at the patent office. For a practitioner, the focus remains on resolving the specific issues raised by the 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 1 | 67.4% | +11.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18009727 | MULTI-USE, REUSABLE, SPILL PROOF PACKAGE FOR FLUIDS WITHOUT A REMOVABLE OR SEPARABLE CLOSURE | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 77d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18009727 | MULTI-USE, REUSABLE, SPILL PROOF PACKAGE FOR FLUIDS WITHOUT A REMOVABLE OR SEPARABLE CLOSURE | MELARAGNO, MICHAEL | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Dec 11, 2022 |
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