Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cr Packaging LLC currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but slightly divided regulatory path for their mechanical innovations. The portfolio involves distinct examiners for each case, showing that every pending action is currently being handled by a different individual at the USPTO.
JEFFREY R ALLEN is identified as the busiest examiner for this company, although he is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution suggests that no single examiner holds a majority of the current workload, which may lead to varied prosecution experiences across the active cases. Practitioners should note that the 2 distinct art units involved might apply different examination standards even within the same broad technology area. The presence of 3 distinct examiners means there is no overlap in personnel, requiring a unique approach for every active file in the portfolio.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.1% | +26.7% |
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.9% |
| DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1 | 62.3% | +10.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566457 | CONTAINERS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 34d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17429304 | METHODS AND COMPONENTS FOR PRODUCING CHILD RESISTANT GLASS CONTAINERS | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 28d |
| 19325154 | CHILD RESISTANT GLASS CONTAINER | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 2 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19325154 | CHILD RESISTANT GLASS CONTAINER | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 3733 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 18566457 | CONTAINERS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 17429304 | METHODS AND COMPONENTS FOR PRODUCING CHILD RESISTANT GLASS CONTAINERS | DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Aug 06, 2021 |
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