Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ball Corporation manages 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing some technical breadth in their mechanical filings. The portfolio is being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 4 pending actions is being handled by a different person. This requires the company to manage 4 different examiner relationships simultaneously and prepare for varied feedback across the portfolio.
PAIK, SANG YEOP is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. Because the 4 pending actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, there is no concentration of cases under any single official. The 3 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's mechanical innovations are being evaluated by a few different specialized units at the USPTO. With 4 pending actions and 3 distinct art units, the company faces a moderately distributed prosecution landscape that requires tailoring technical arguments to the specific standards of each art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAIK, SANG YEOP | 1 | 65.5% | +16.3% |
| BROWN, JARED O | 1 | 74.0% | +39.2% |
| PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 1 | 46.7% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16703558 | TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 38d overdue |
| 19024508 | TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | BROWN, JARED O | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16703558 | TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 38d overdue |
| 19220492 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO CURE A COATING ON A METALLIC CONTAINER | PAIK, SANG YEOP | — |
| 19024508 | TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | BROWN, JARED O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19220492 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO CURE A COATING ON A METALLIC CONTAINER | PAIK, SANG YEOP | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19024508 | TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | BROWN, JARED O | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 16703558 | TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialBall Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Sang Yeop Paik has the most, with 1 of Ball Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
