Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BERRY GLOBAL, INC.

16 pending office actions • 13 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
5
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (5)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%)
14
Medium (88%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (81%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
No statute on record2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
56% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
12% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
31% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER 1 61.8% +28.7%
GEHMAN, BRYON P 1 73.6% +30.7%
HAUPT, KRISTY A 1 87.7% +12.3%
SHAH, MANISH S 1 85.9% +7.5%
VO, HAI 1 57.0% +72.2%
PIERCE, JEREMY R 1 56.5% +43.5%
MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1 53.3% +30.8%
SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T 1 62.3% +26.5%
KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE 1 55.7% +38.7%
WANG, ALEXANDER A 1 65.6% +21.4%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18657860 POLYMERIC ARTICLES WITH ELECTRONIC CODE FORMED THEREON AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME HAUPT, KRISTY A 8d
18610854 PRINTING PROCESS SHAH, MANISH S 39d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18238222 SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE BUNDLING OF INDUSTRIAL ITEMS KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE 60d overdue
18380421 Biopolymer-Containing Nonwoven Fabric SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T 29d overdue
18976732 STACKABLE CONTAINER, A STACKABLE CONTAINER PACKAGE, AND A METHOD OF USE OF THE SAME GEHMAN, BRYON P 19d overdue
18406730 INSULATED MULTI-LAYER SHEET AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME VO, HAI 4d overdue
18517043 FABRICS INCLUDING A NON-FLUORINATED BARRIER COATING PIERCE, JEREMY R 4d overdue
18657860 POLYMERIC ARTICLES WITH ELECTRONIC CODE FORMED THEREON AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME HAUPT, KRISTY A 8d
17955707 POLYMERIC ARTICLES WITH ELECTRONIC CODE FORMED THEREON AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME WANG, ALEXANDER A 28d
18514141 ZONED SPINNERET AND NONWOVEN FABRICS MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1789 3
3781 2
3733 1
3736 1
2876 1
2853 1
1788 1
1746 1
3689 1
1741 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19217277 TAMPER EVIDENT PACKAGE AND CLOSURE FOR PACKAGE CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER 3733 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending May 23, 2025
18976732 STACKABLE CONTAINER, A STACKABLE CONTAINER PACKAGE, AND A METHOD OF USE OF THE SAME GEHMAN, BRYON P 3736 Other Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2024
18657860 POLYMERIC ARTICLES WITH ELECTRONIC CODE FORMED THEREON AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME HAUPT, KRISTY A 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending May 08, 2024
18610854 PRINTING PROCESS SHAH, MANISH S 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending Mar 20, 2024
18406730 INSULATED MULTI-LAYER SHEET AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME VO, HAI 1788 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18517043 FABRICS INCLUDING A NON-FLUORINATED BARRIER COATING PIERCE, JEREMY R 1789 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2023
18514141 ZONED SPINNERET AND NONWOVEN FABRICS MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Nov 20, 2023
18380421 Biopolymer-Containing Nonwoven Fabric SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T 1746 §103 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Oct 16, 2023
18238222 SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE BUNDLING OF INDUSTRIAL ITEMS KRINGEN, MICHELLE THERESE 3689 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Aug 25, 2023
17955707 POLYMERIC ARTICLES WITH ELECTRONIC CODE FORMED THEREON AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME WANG, ALEXANDER A 1741 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Sep 29, 2022
17951668 Textile Backsheet SU, SUSAN SHAN 3781 §103 Final Rejection 40d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17825037 Textile Backsheet STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F 3781 DPOther Non-Final OA 76d Pending May 26, 2022
17700363 Absorbent Composites CHANDHOK, JENNA N 1789 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Mar 21, 2022
17363551 INSULATED CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH 1782 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2021
16778516 MACHINE DIRECTION-ORIENTED POLYMERIC FILM, AND METHOD OF MAKING THE MACHINE DIRECTION-ORIENTED POLYMERIC FILM SHAH, SAMIR 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Jan 31, 2020
16018637 MULTILAYER BREATHABLE FILMS AND LAMINATES INCLUDING THE SAME CHOI, PETER Y 1786 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jun 26, 2018

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