Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

AptarGroup Inc.

14 pending office actions • 7 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 52 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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
1
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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%)
10
Medium (71%)
4
Easy (29%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (50%)
§102 only3 (21%)
§112 only4 (29%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
7% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
12
Mechanical / Eng
86% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK 2 67.8% +12.4%
PANCHOLI, VISHAL J 1 73.0% +25.3%
KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 1 63.1% +21.3%
GORMAN, DARREN W 1 79.1% +25.2%
FRANK, RODNEY T 1 72.7% +3.7%
SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE 1 58.7% +71.1%
CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL 1 53.1% +41.1%
MOON, MATTHEW RYAN 1 57.8% +60.6%
SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE 1 58.5% +36.5%
LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA 1 31.3% +70.9%

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17787087 DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A FLUID PRODUCT SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE 125d overdue
17923447 DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A FLUID PRODUCT MOON, MATTHEW RYAN 70d overdue
18686294 FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK 10d overdue
18281185 DEVICE FOR NASAL DELIVERY OF A FLUID PRODUCT SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE 2d overdue
18839086 FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER PANCHOLI, VISHAL J
18836589 DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A FLUID PRODUCT KIM, CHRISTOPHER S
18720298 SPRAYING HEAD GORMAN, DARREN W
18286700 FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3754 3
3752 3
3783 3
3785 2
2855 1
3741 1
1747 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18839086 FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER PANCHOLI, VISHAL J 3754 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2024
18836589 DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A FLUID PRODUCT KIM, CHRISTOPHER S 3752 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 22, 2024
18720298 SPRAYING HEAD GORMAN, DARREN W 3752 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 14, 2024
18686294 FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK 3754 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2024
18290054 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYSING A DEVICE FOR SPRAYING A PHARMACEUTICAL FLUID PRODUCT FRANK, RODNEY T 2855 §112 Final Rejection 16d Pending Nov 09, 2023
18286700 FLUID PRODUCT DISPENSER ANGWIN, DAVID PATRICK 3754 §102 Final Rejection Pending Oct 12, 2023
18281185 DEVICE FOR NASAL DELIVERY OF A FLUID PRODUCT SEBASCO CHENG, STEPHANIE 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Oct 03, 2023
18004499 SPRAY HEAD AND DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A FLUID PRODUCT COMPRISING SUCH A HEAD CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL 3752 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 06, 2023
17923447 DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A FLUID PRODUCT MOON, MATTHEW RYAN 3785 §112 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2022
17787087 DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A FLUID PRODUCT SCHMIDT, EMILY LOUISE 3783 §103 Non-Final OA 125d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2022
17786967 DEVICE FOR DISPENSING A FLUID PRODUCT LEBRON DE JESUS, GRACIELA NATALIA 3785 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2022
17442889 A FLUID PRODUCT INJECTION DEVICE MARRISON, SAMUEL JOSEPH 3783 §102 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Sep 24, 2021
18568455 LIQUID DISPENSER FOR NASAL APPLICATIONS CARPENTER, WILLIAM R 3783 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
18004330 ORAL DISPENSER FOR LIQUIDS, IN PARTICULAR FOR LIQUIDS CONTAINING NICOTINE OR CANNABIS CULBERT, COURTNEY GUENTHER 1747 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jan 05, 2023

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