Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Canpack S A has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution shows a high level of variety in the examination process for the company's active applications.
SMALLEY, JAMES N is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is divided such that each examiner handles a single matter. This ensures that the company's prosecution risks are diversified across four different individuals and technical groups.
The 4 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's innovations touch on several different aspects of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Managing multiple examiners requires a coordinated effort to maintain consistency in the company's overall patent strategy. Practitioners should be prepared to address the unique technical perspectives of each of the 4 distinct art units.
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.
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.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.9% |
| GARBER, ERIN R | 1 | 82.7% | +17.7% |
| GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 1 | 61.2% | +25.3% |
| HASKE, WOJCIECH | 1 | 73.0% | +17.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DEFECTIVE BEVERAGE CANS | GARBER, ERIN R | 1d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18018570 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN INTERFERENCE COATING | HASKE, WOJCIECH | 72d overdue |
| 18293540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DEFECTIVE BEVERAGE CANS | GARBER, ERIN R | 1d overdue |
| 18490140 | TEXTURED SURFACE FOR BEVERAGE CONTAINERS | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 2878 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18706671 | EASY KEY CONTAINER LID | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18293540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING DEFECTIVE BEVERAGE CANS | GARBER, ERIN R | 2878 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18490140 | TEXTURED SURFACE FOR BEVERAGE CONTAINERS | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18018570 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN INTERFERENCE COATING | HASKE, WOJCIECH | 1794 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2023 |
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