Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ball Corporation currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These cases are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is handled by a unique individual. The prosecution activity is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating some technical variety within the portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the company is PAIK, SANG YEOP, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 4 pending office actions are perfectly distributed across the 4 distinct examiners. Managing 3 distinct art units requires practitioners to be familiar with multiple technical groups within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Since no single examiner handles more than one case, the prosecution strategy must be adapted for each of the 4 distinct examiners involved.
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 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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% |
| ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 1 | 40.9% | +15.7% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
| PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 1 | 46.6% | +18.4% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16703558 | TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 38d overdue |
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 4 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 |
| 18899132 | SYSTEM TO PROVIDE A PREDETERMINED SPACE BETWEEN CYLINDRICAL INK-TRANSFERRING COMPONENTS OF A DECORATOR | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 34d |
| 19220492 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO CURE A COATING ON A METALLIC CONTAINER | PAIK, SANG YEOP | — |
| 18785785 | METALLIC BEVERAGE CONTAINERS WITH CORROSION INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3725 | 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 18899132 | SYSTEM TO PROVIDE A PREDETERMINED SPACE BETWEEN CYLINDRICAL INK-TRANSFERRING COMPONENTS OF A DECORATOR | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18785785 | METALLIC BEVERAGE CONTAINERS WITH CORROSION INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 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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