Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Billerud Aktiebolag (Publ) is managing a portfolio with 8 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating that the company's patent filings cover a variety of technical sub-specialties within the broader chemistry field. This distribution requires the company to adapt to the different examination cultures of 4 separate units.
The prosecution workload involves 7 distinct examiners. With the pending actions and 7 examiners, most applications are being reviewed by unique individuals, though there is a slight concentration of work. This high number of examiners means the company must track multiple different sets of examiner preferences and timelines simultaneously.
FORTUNA, JOSE A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 2 pending office actions. While this is the highest number of actions assigned to a single person, it still only represents a portion of the 8 total pending actions. The remaining actions are spread among the other distinct examiners, ensuring that the portfolio's overall progress is not overly dependent on any single individual's schedule.
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 | 4 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORTUNA, JOSE A | 2 | 79.5% | +9.9% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.2% | +23.3% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.6% | +34.4% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.2% |
| AHMED, SHEEBA | 1 | 80.7% | +14.4% |
| VERA, ELISA H | 1 | 72.2% | +26.5% |
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.8% | +28.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18719176 | COATED PAPER SUITABLE FOR USE IN A SACK | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
| 18717985 | GRAPHENE-COATED PAPER OR PAPERBOARD | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18551940 | A METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NON-UNIFORM BARRIER COATING ON A HOLLOW CONTAINER COMPRISING MOLDED PULP | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714077 | STARCH-COATED PAPER OR PAPERBOARD | VERA, ELISA H | 57d |
| 18723408 | COATED PAPERBOARD | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | — |
| 18723175 | RECYCLABLE PAPER OF HIGH WET STRENGTH | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18719176 | COATED PAPER SUITABLE FOR USE IN A SACK | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — |
| 18717985 | GRAPHENE-COATED PAPER OR PAPERBOARD | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18551940 | A METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NON-UNIFORM BARRIER COATING ON A HOLLOW CONTAINER COMPRISING MOLDED PULP | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 4 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723408 | COATED PAPERBOARD | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18723175 | RECYCLABLE PAPER OF HIGH WET STRENGTH | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18719176 | COATED PAPER SUITABLE FOR USE IN A SACK | TAWFIK, SAMEH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18717985 | GRAPHENE-COATED PAPER OR PAPERBOARD | AHMED, SHEEBA | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18714077 | STARCH-COATED PAPER OR PAPERBOARD | VERA, ELISA H | 1748 | §102 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18715681 | HEAT-SEALABLE PAPER | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18292451 | Assymetric Paperboard | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18551940 | A METHOD FOR PROVIDING A NON-UNIFORM BARRIER COATING ON A HOLLOW CONTAINER COMPRISING MOLDED PULP | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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