Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Blue Ocean Closures AB is managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution of 3 actions across 3 distinct art units suggests that each of the company's active filings covers a distinct technical sub-specialty within the materials science domain. This requires a tailored approach for each individual case.
TAWFIK, SAMEH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners for 3 total actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. Practitioners should note that each pending case is being reviewed in a different art unit, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific standards of the 3 distinct art units and the preferences of the 3 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.2% |
| WANG, ALEXANDER A | 1 | 66.2% | +20.7% |
| KIM, YUNJU | 1 | 55.2% | +35.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699053 | PRESS MOLDING METHOD OF A CUP SHAPED FIBER PRODUCT, A FIBER PRESS MOLD AND A CUP SHAPED FIBER PRODUCT | WANG, ALEXANDER A | — |
| 18695874 | FIBER-BASED PACKAGING CAPSULE AND A METHOD OF PRESS-FORMING THE SAME | KIM, YUNJU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849186 | PRODUCTION METHOD AND PRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR FIBER BASED CELLULOSE MATERIAL PRODUCTS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 19d overdue |
| 18699053 | PRESS MOLDING METHOD OF A CUP SHAPED FIBER PRODUCT, A FIBER PRESS MOLD AND A CUP SHAPED FIBER PRODUCT | WANG, ALEXANDER A | — |
| 18695874 | FIBER-BASED PACKAGING CAPSULE AND A METHOD OF PRESS-FORMING THE SAME | KIM, YUNJU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849186 | PRODUCTION METHOD AND PRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR FIBER BASED CELLULOSE MATERIAL PRODUCTS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18699053 | PRESS MOLDING METHOD OF A CUP SHAPED FIBER PRODUCT, A FIBER PRESS MOLD AND A CUP SHAPED FIBER PRODUCT | WANG, ALEXANDER A | 1741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18695874 | FIBER-BASED PACKAGING CAPSULE AND A METHOD OF PRESS-FORMING THE SAME | KIM, YUNJU | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
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