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
Winpak Portion Packaging Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being examined by 1 distinct examiner, POON, ROBERT. The busiest examiner, POON, ROBERT, holds 1 pending action, representing the company's entire current pending workload.
The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates a specialized focus for this mechanical engineering filing. With only 1 pending office action, the company's near-term patent goals are concentrated on this single interaction. Effective communication with 1 distinct examiner is essential for securing these packaging-related claims and moving the portfolio forward.
The data shows that the 1 pending office action is being reviewed within a single technical department. This concentration allows for a focused legal approach but means that the company's success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector depends on the resolution of this specific case. Practitioners should prioritize the feedback from POON, ROBERT to ensure the allowance of the claims.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POON, ROBERT | 1 | 41.9% | +27.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18962144 | MULTI-COMPARTMENT TRAY | POON, ROBERT | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18962144 | MULTI-COMPARTMENT TRAY | POON, ROBERT | 3735 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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