Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Essity Hygiene And Health Aktiebolag

21 pending office actions • 5 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 57 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

11
Hard (52%)
9
Medium (43%)
1
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (5%)
§103 only7 (33%)
§102 only1 (5%)
Double-patenting only1 (5%)
Double-patenting + other1 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)10 (48%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
29% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
9
Business / Other
43% 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.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E 3 54.2% +31.2%
FORTUNA, JOSE A 3 79.5% +9.9%
ARBLE, JESSICA R 2 66.0% +25.9%
OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY 1 87.3% +1.9%
YANG, CHENG FONG 1 64.2% +23.6%
CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P 1 63.0% +21.2%
ANDERSON, CATHARINE L 1 65.3% +20.9%
WEINER, ARIELLE E 1 43.9% +53.1%
SHECHTMAN, SEAN P 1 75.1% +22.4%
STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F 1 75.6% +14.5%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19234557 PACKAGE DISPENSER FOR WIPES, PACKAGE BLANK AND A METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PACKAGE DISPENSER OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY

Hard Cases (11)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17429511 SANITARY ARTICLE KIM, ERIN ASA 88d overdue
18013844 STRIP ELEMENT FOR AN ABSORBENT HYGIENE ARTICLE SMITH, PETER DANIEL 36d overdue
18013817 TISSUE PAPER PRODUCTS, ROLLS AND STACKS OF TISSUE PAPER PRODUCTS, AND MANUFACTURING METHODS FORTUNA, JOSE A 15d
18959745 WASHABLE ABSORBENT MALE UNDERWEAR CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P
18860975 ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH EMBOSSED SHAPING ELEMENT ANDERSON, CATHARINE L
18851890 A METHOD FOR GENERATING COMPRESSION GARMENT FIT INFORMATION AND AN APPARATUS THEREOF WEINER, ARIELLE E
18839778 WASHABLE AND REUSABLE ABSORBENT UNDERGARMENT BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E
18727793 SANITARY PAD COMPRISING A WATER-SOLUBLE FORMULATION STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F

Interview Candidates (11)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18959817 WASHABLE ABSORBENT ASSEMBLY YANG, CHENG FONG
18959745 WASHABLE ABSORBENT MALE UNDERWEAR CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P
18860975 ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH EMBOSSED SHAPING ELEMENT ANDERSON, CATHARINE L
18858064 A DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT HYGIENE PRODUCT BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E
18851890 A METHOD FOR GENERATING COMPRESSION GARMENT FIT INFORMATION AND AN APPARATUS THEREOF WEINER, ARIELLE E
18888528 WOUND DRESSING ARBLE, JESSICA R
18843959 SANITARY ARTICLE WITH ASSYMMETRICAL FASTENING WINGS AND METHODS OF ATTACHING A COMMON RELEASE PAPER TO THE FASTENING WINGS OF THE SANITARY ARTICLE BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E
18839778 WASHABLE AND REUSABLE ABSORBENT UNDERGARMENT BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3781 5
1748 4
3689 1
1746 1
1789 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19234557 PACKAGE DISPENSER FOR WIPES, PACKAGE BLANK AND A METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PACKAGE DISPENSER OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI HARRY §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Jun 11, 2025
18959817 WASHABLE ABSORBENT ASSEMBLY YANG, CHENG FONG §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 26, 2024
18959745 WASHABLE ABSORBENT MALE UNDERWEAR CHATRATHI, ARJUNA P §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 26, 2024
18860975 ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH EMBOSSED SHAPING ELEMENT ANDERSON, CATHARINE L §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 28, 2024
18858064 A DISPOSABLE ABSORBENT HYGIENE PRODUCT BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E DP Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2024
18851890 A METHOD FOR GENERATING COMPRESSION GARMENT FIT INFORMATION AND AN APPARATUS THEREOF WEINER, ARIELLE E 3689 §101§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2024
18888528 WOUND DRESSING ARBLE, JESSICA R §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 18, 2024
18843959 SANITARY ARTICLE WITH ASSYMMETRICAL FASTENING WINGS AND METHODS OF ATTACHING A COMMON RELEASE PAPER TO THE FASTENING WINGS OF THE SANITARY ARTICLE BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 04, 2024
18839778 WASHABLE AND REUSABLE ABSORBENT UNDERGARMENT BURNETTE, GABRIELLA E 3781 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 20, 2024
18832268 POWER SUPPLY FOR A LOCAL CONSUMER LOAD SHECHTMAN, SEAN P §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 23, 2024
18727793 SANITARY PAD COMPRISING A WATER-SOLUBLE FORMULATION STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 10, 2024
18693582 ABSORBENT ARTICLE ARBLE, JESSICA R 3781 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 20, 2024
18683966 ABSORBENT ARTICLE WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18577745 TISSUE PAPER MATERIAL AND TISSUE PAPER PRODUCT FORTUNA, JOSE A 1748 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jan 09, 2024
18577482 TISSUE PAPER MATERIAL AND TISSUE PAPER PRODUCT INCLUDING NON-WOOD FIBRES FORTUNA, JOSE A 1748 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 08, 2024
18577421 STACK OF A TISSUE PAPER PRODUCT INCLUDING NON-WOOD FIBRES MINSKEY, JACOB T 1748 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 08, 2024
18013844 STRIP ELEMENT FOR AN ABSORBENT HYGIENE ARTICLE SMITH, PETER DANIEL 3781 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2022
18013817 TISSUE PAPER PRODUCTS, ROLLS AND STACKS OF TISSUE PAPER PRODUCTS, AND MANUFACTURING METHODS FORTUNA, JOSE A 1748 §103§112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 29, 2022
18012966 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TISSUE PAPER PRODUCT MUSSER, BARBARA J 1746 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 26, 2022
18000550 METHOD FOR CONSOLIDATING A FIBROUS MATERIAL WITH A BIO-BASED BINDER POLYMER, A CONSOLIDATED FIBROUS MATERIAL AND AN AQUEOUS BINDER SOLUTION PIERCE, JEREMY R 1789 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 02, 2022
17429511 SANITARY ARTICLE KIM, ERIN ASA 3781 §103§112 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2021

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