Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BALL CORPORATION

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
25% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
25% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KRUPICKA, ADAM C 1 61.7% +27.9%
ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D 1 40.4% +16.1%
DUNN, DARRIN D 1 75.4% +23.7%
PERREAULT, ANDREW D 1 46.5% +18.6%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
16703558 TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME PERREAULT, ANDREW D 38d overdue
17893976 APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ENGRAVING MACHINE READABLE INFORMATION ON A METALLIC WORKPIECE DURING MANUFACTURING AND TRACKING SYSTEMS RELATED THERETO DUNN, DARRIN D 30d
18899132 SYSTEM TO PROVIDE A PREDETERMINED SPACE BETWEEN CYLINDRICAL INK-TRANSFERRING COMPONENTS OF A DECORATOR ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D 34d
18908497 ALUMINUM ALLOY FOR IMPACT EXTRUDED CONTAINERS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME KRUPICKA, ADAM C 84d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1784 1
2853 1
2117 1
3735 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18908497 ALUMINUM ALLOY FOR IMPACT EXTRUDED CONTAINERS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME KRUPICKA, ADAM C 1784 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Oct 07, 2024
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
17893976 APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ENGRAVING MACHINE READABLE INFORMATION ON A METALLIC WORKPIECE DURING MANUFACTURING AND TRACKING SYSTEMS RELATED THERETO DUNN, DARRIN D 2117 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Aug 23, 2022
16703558 TAPERED METAL CUP AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME PERREAULT, ANDREW D 3735 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2019

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