Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cryovac LLC

7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (3)

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%)
6
Medium (86%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)
§112 only1 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
43% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
29% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
29% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
YI, STELLA KIM 1 70.6% +29.1%
UHLENHAKE, JASON S 1 87.2% -2.5%
TAWFIK, SAMEH 1 63.0% +30.9%
SHAH, MANISH S 1 85.9% +7.5%
RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1 44.9% +32.6%
VU, STEPHEN A 1 81.8% +15.2%
JACKSON, MONIQUE R 1 34.7% +44.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18722804 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING PRINTHEADS OF A PRINTING APPARATUS UHLENHAKE, JASON S 29d overdue
18290038 PRINTING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREFOR SHAH, MANISH S 29d overdue
18011574 PASSIVE VALVES FOR VACUUM MANIFOLDS VU, STEPHEN A 77d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17265628 SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC THERMOPLASTIC FILMS FOR PACKAGING JACKSON, MONIQUE R 5d overdue
18568327 PACKAGE AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAID PACKAGE TAWFIK, SAMEH 12d
18037183 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECYCLING POLYVINYLIDENE CHLORIDE CONTAINING COMPOSITE MATERIAL RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 68d
18849763 FIBER-BASED MOISTURE RESISTANT PACKAGING ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE YI, STELLA KIM 71d
18011574 PASSIVE VALVES FOR VACUUM MANIFOLDS VU, STEPHEN A 77d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2853 2
1742 1
3731 1
1759 1
3654 1
1787 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18849763 FIBER-BASED MOISTURE RESISTANT PACKAGING ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE YI, STELLA KIM 1742 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Sep 23, 2024
18722804 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POSITIONING PRINTHEADS OF A PRINTING APPARATUS UHLENHAKE, JASON S 2853 §102 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Jun 21, 2024
18568327 PACKAGE AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAID PACKAGE TAWFIK, SAMEH 3731 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Dec 08, 2023
18290038 PRINTING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS THEREFOR SHAH, MANISH S 2853 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Nov 09, 2023
18037183 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECYCLING POLYVINYLIDENE CHLORIDE CONTAINING COMPOSITE MATERIAL RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 68d Pending May 16, 2023
18011574 PASSIVE VALVES FOR VACUUM MANIFOLDS VU, STEPHEN A 3654 §112 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Dec 20, 2022
17265628 SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC THERMOPLASTIC FILMS FOR PACKAGING JACKSON, MONIQUE R 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2021

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