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
Zhejiang Weipai Packaging Equipment Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but only 1 art unit, so the technical classification is consistent while examiner handling differs.
WITTENSCHLAEGER, THOMAS M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. The small docket supports direct file-level management and comparison of the two examination records within the shared art-unit context.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHUTTY, DAVID G | 1 | 69.1% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19111094 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR HANDHELD PACKAGING MACHINE | SHUTTY, DAVID G | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19111094 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR HANDHELD PACKAGING MACHINE | SHUTTY, DAVID G | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19111094 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR HANDHELD PACKAGING MACHINE | SHUTTY, DAVID G | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialZhejiang Weipai Packaging Equipment Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
David G Shutty has the most, with 1 of Zhejiang Weipai Packaging Equipment Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
