Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
17 pending office actions • 9 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amcor Flexibles North America Inc. has 17 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 9 distinct art units, showing a significant technical range in their materials research. The company is interacting with 16 distinct examiners, which means that nearly every pending application is under the review of a different person. This distribution requires the company to navigate many different examiner styles and maintain consistency across 17 pending actions.
SHUKLA, KRUPA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 2 pending office actions. Given that there are 17 pending actions and 16 distinct examiners, the prosecution effort is highly decentralized. The 9 distinct art units involved indicate that the company's flexible packaging and materials innovations are being evaluated by several different specialized groups within the USPTO. With 17 pending actions spread across 9 distinct art units, the company must tailor its technical arguments to meet the specific requirements of various chemistry-focused examination divisions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 7 (41%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (47%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHUKLA, KRUPA | 2 | 15.2% | +22.5% |
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +19.0% |
| COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | 1 | 86.4% | +18.9% |
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 58.0% | +4.5% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.6% | +29.5% |
| FITZPATRICK, JULIA GRACE | 1 | 85.1% | +1.1% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1 | 44.2% | +43.7% |
| MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1 | 80.8% | +16.6% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.5% | +22.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891718 | RESIDUAL PRODUCT WEIGHT TESTING METHOD | FITZPATRICK, JULIA GRACE | — |
| 18687750 | THERMOFORMABLE SHEET AND THERMOFORMED PACKAGE | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722571 | A TAMPER EVIDENT CLOSURE FOR A THREADED CONTAINER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 56d |
| 19133663 | WRAP FOR PRODUCT, PACKAGE, AND WRAPPED TIMBER PRODUCT | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 19100672 | RECYCLABLE HIGH MOISTURE BARRIER FILM | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — |
| 18880389 | PAPER-BASED PACKAGING FILM AND PACKAGE COMPRISING THE FILM | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | — |
| 18875838 | COMPOSTABLE FILM FOR PACKAGING FLUIDS | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18873671 | MULTILAYER PACKAGING FILMS | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| 18691413 | RECYCLABLE THERMOFORMABLE FILM | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | — |
| 18020146 | PEELABLE FILM HAVING NANOCLAY | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722571 | A TAMPER EVIDENT CLOSURE FOR A THREADED CONTAINER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 56d |
| 19133663 | WRAP FOR PRODUCT, PACKAGE, AND WRAPPED TIMBER PRODUCT | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| 19100672 | RECYCLABLE HIGH MOISTURE BARRIER FILM | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | — |
| 18875838 | COMPOSTABLE FILM FOR PACKAGING FLUIDS | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18873671 | MULTILAYER PACKAGING FILMS | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| 18691413 | RECYCLABLE THERMOFORMABLE FILM | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | — |
| 18687750 | THERMOFORMABLE SHEET AND THERMOFORMED PACKAGE | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18687751 | HEAT STABLE BARRIER FILM STRUCTURE | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 5 |
| 1782 | 3 |
| 1781 | 2 |
| 1783 | 2 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19133663 | WRAP FOR PRODUCT, PACKAGE, AND WRAPPED TIMBER PRODUCT | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19100672 | RECYCLABLE HIGH MOISTURE BARRIER FILM | COPENHEAVER, BLAINE R | 1781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18880389 | PAPER-BASED PACKAGING FILM AND PACKAGE COMPRISING THE FILM | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1788 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18875838 | COMPOSTABLE FILM FOR PACKAGING FLUIDS | KRUER, KEVIN R | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18873671 | MULTILAYER PACKAGING FILMS | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18891718 | RESIDUAL PRODUCT WEIGHT TESTING METHOD | FITZPATRICK, JULIA GRACE | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18722571 | A TAMPER EVIDENT CLOSURE FOR A THREADED CONTAINER | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18691413 | RECYCLABLE THERMOFORMABLE FILM | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18687750 | THERMOFORMABLE SHEET AND THERMOFORMED PACKAGE | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18687751 | HEAT STABLE BARRIER FILM STRUCTURE | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18572623 | RECYCLABLE PACKAGING FILM | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18561201 | PEELABLE AND SEALABLE LIDSTOCK MATERIAL FOR CONTAINERS | SHAH, SAMIR | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18020146 | PEELABLE FILM HAVING NANOCLAY | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 17919122 | LINERS FOR BULK CONTAINERS | ROMANOWSKI, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17915732 | FILMS WITH RETORT-SHOCK RECOVERY | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17438988 | RECYCLABLE FILM FOR THERMOFORMING | BLADES, JOHN A | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2021 |
| 16758043 | RECYCLABLE FILM AND PACKAGING | LAN, YAN | 1782 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialAmcor Flexibles North America Inc. has 17 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 16 examiners.
Krupa Shukla has the most, with 2 of Amcor Flexibles North America Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
