Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Reynolds Consumer Products LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. All 3 pending office actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA. These actions are also all located within 1 distinct art unit.
NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA is the busiest examiner with 3 pending office actions. This shows that the entire pending workload for the company is concentrated with a single examiner in a single art unit. Practitioners should recognize that this concentration allows for a very consistent prosecution approach across all 3 pending office actions. Every action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is currently under the review of NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA. The presence of 1 distinct art unit ensures that all applications are subject to the same departmental policies. This highly centralized structure means that the company's prosecution success is currently tied to the decisions of this one individual.
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 | 3 (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 | 3 | 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084620 | CONTAINERS, BLANKS, AND METHODS FOR DISPENSING WEB MATERIAL | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
| 19084613 | CONTAINERS, BLANKS, AND METHODS FOR DISPENSING WEB MATERIAL | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
| 19084606 | CONTAINERS, BLANKS, AND METHODS FOR DISPENSING WEB MATERIAL | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084620 | CONTAINERS, BLANKS, AND METHODS FOR DISPENSING WEB MATERIAL | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19084613 | CONTAINERS, BLANKS, AND METHODS FOR DISPENSING WEB MATERIAL | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19084606 | CONTAINERS, BLANKS, AND METHODS FOR DISPENSING WEB MATERIAL | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialReynolds Consumer Products LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Blaine Girma Neway has the most, with 3 of Reynolds Consumer Products LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
