Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Actega Ds GmbH has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 5 examiners and 5 art units, showing broad distribution across the portfolio with no concentration beyond the examiner and technical-group assignments identified below. The number of pending matters warrants active docket coordination and regular review for recurring claim or disclosure issues.
DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment creates the clearest opportunity for examiner-focused planning, while the remaining matters require attention to their separate examiner and art-unit settings.
Counsel should maintain consistent positions where applications share technical subject matter, but avoid assuming that a response effective in one matter will transfer unchanged. Interviews, amendments, and evidentiary support should be evaluated against each assigned examiner and art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 2 | 61.0% | +20.9% |
| LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1 | 57.1% | +43.4% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.6% | +28.0% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.8% | +9.7% |
| HALL, DEVE V. | 1 | 74.8% | +16.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856952 | SEALING INSERTS FOR CROWN CORKS WITH REDUCED METAL-SHEET THICKNESS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | — |
| 18036910 | AQUEOUS POLYOLEFIN DISPERSION | HALL, DEVE V. | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17782020 | ROTARY VACUUM VESSEL CLOSURE WITH VESSEL CLOSURE SEAL | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 100d overdue |
| 17775787 | VESSEL CLOSURE SEAL AND VESSEL CLOSURE | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 91d overdue |
| 18856952 | SEALING INSERTS FOR CROWN CORKS WITH REDUCED METAL-SHEET THICKNESS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | — |
| 18713416 | SEALING MATERIAL FOR CONTAINER CLOSURES | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | — |
| 18036910 | AQUEOUS POLYOLEFIN DISPERSION | HALL, DEVE V. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 2 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18856952 | SEALING INSERTS FOR CROWN CORKS WITH REDUCED METAL-SHEET THICKNESS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2024 |
| 18713416 | SEALING MATERIAL FOR CONTAINER CLOSURES | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18293403 | LASER-MARKABLE SEALING COMPOUNDS WITH OXYGEN ABSORBERS | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18036910 | AQUEOUS POLYOLEFIN DISPERSION | HALL, DEVE V. | 1763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 17782020 | ROTARY VACUUM VESSEL CLOSURE WITH VESSEL CLOSURE SEAL | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2022 |
| 17775787 | VESSEL CLOSURE SEAL AND VESSEL CLOSURE | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | 91d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialActega Ds GmbH has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Devin Mitchell Darling has the most, with 2 of Actega Ds GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
