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
Smart Packaging LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit. This organizational structure suggests a highly focused prosecution strategy in this specific technological field, as the company is not currently navigating multiple art units or examiner perspectives.
NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the company's entire pending workload. The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused effort in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. For a practitioner, this means that the company's current success in this sector depends on the outcomes of this singular interaction, emphasizing the importance of this specific examiner relationship.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18623896 | PAPER-BASED BAKEABLE TRAY WITH DIECUTS | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18623896 | PAPER-BASED BAKEABLE TRAY WITH DIECUTS | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18623896 | PAPER-BASED BAKEABLE TRAY WITH DIECUTS | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
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