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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tsi Manufacturing LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is under the review of 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, making it the sole focus of the company's current patent prosecution. The company's immediate success in this technology area is tied to the evaluation of this single examiner. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company faces a highly concentrated prosecution environment.
CHEYNEY, CHARLES is the busiest examiner for the company, handling the 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the company's total current workload within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector at the USPTO. Because there are no other pending cases, the company cannot compare examiner feedback across different art units. This concentration requires a highly specific response to the requirements of the 1 distinct examiner involved. Practitioners should carefully analyze the past decisions of this 1 distinct examiner to anticipate potential hurdles. The singular nature of the prosecution simplifies management but increases the impact of this individual case.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 1 | 56.7% | +42.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19057833 | FOUR-LAYERED MATERIAL FOR A FLEXIBLE FLUID RESERVOIR | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19057833 | FOUR-LAYERED MATERIAL FOR A FLEXIBLE FLUID RESERVOIR | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialTsi Manufacturing LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Charles Cheyney has the most, with 1 of Tsi Manufacturing LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
