Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. Kg

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only2 (29%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
29% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
71% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PERREAULT, ANDREW D 2 46.5% +18.6%
BALDRIGHI, ERIC C 1 41.5% +42.4%
SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A 1 65.0% +27.9%
KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE 1 22.2% +87.5%
KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH 1 48.3% +12.0%
YAGER, JAMES C 1 39.9% +25.3%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18027516 CUTTING DEVICE AND FABRICATING TABLE HAVING THE DEVICE KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE 10d overdue

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17265518 PREFORM MADE OF POLYESTER YAGER, JAMES C 751d overdue
17999206 PLASTIC CONTAINER KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH 672d overdue
18568240 CLOSURE CAP BALDRIGHI, ERIC C 140d overdue
18998545 CONTAINER PRODUCED FROM PLASTIC PERREAULT, ANDREW D 30d overdue
18027516 CUTTING DEVICE AND FABRICATING TABLE HAVING THE DEVICE KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE 10d overdue
18264748 METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN RPET PLASTIC MATERIAL FOR USE IN A THIN WALL INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS AND HOLLOW BODY PRODUCED IN THE THIN WALL INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A 23d
18292450 TRAY, STACK OF TRAYS AND METHOD FOR LOADING/UNLOADING TRAYS PERREAULT, ANDREW D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3735 3
3733 1
1742 1
3724 1
1782 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18998545 CONTAINER PRODUCED FROM PLASTIC PERREAULT, ANDREW D 3735 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2025
18292450 TRAY, STACK OF TRAYS AND METHOD FOR LOADING/UNLOADING TRAYS PERREAULT, ANDREW D 3735 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 26, 2024
18568240 CLOSURE CAP BALDRIGHI, ERIC C 3733 §103 Non-Final OA 140d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2023
18264748 METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN RPET PLASTIC MATERIAL FOR USE IN A THIN WALL INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS AND HOLLOW BODY PRODUCED IN THE THIN WALL INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS SCHIFFMAN, BENJAMIN A 1742 §102 Final Rejection 23d Pending Aug 08, 2023
18027516 CUTTING DEVICE AND FABRICATING TABLE HAVING THE DEVICE KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
17999206 PLASTIC CONTAINER KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH 3735 §102 Non-Final OA 672d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2022
17265518 PREFORM MADE OF POLYESTER YAGER, JAMES C 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 751d overdue Pending Feb 02, 2021

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