Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gaplast GmbH currently has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. The presence of 3 examiners for 4 actions suggests that while most examiners have one matter, one individual is handling half of the company's current pending workload.
HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 2 pending office actions. With 4 pending office actions in total, the company's prosecution is relatively concentrated within 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's chemistry and materials filings are technically related, even as they are split among 3 distinct examiners. Practitioners should focus on the 2 art units to understand the departmental trends affecting these 4 pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 2 | 42.7% | +19.2% |
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.4% |
| GRAY, PHILLIP A | 1 | 74.4% | +10.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800659 | SYSTEM FOR STORING AND DELIVERING A MEDICINAL SOLUTION INTO/OUT OF A MULTIPLE DOSE CONTAINER | GRAY, PHILLIP A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19006473 | CONTAINER | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 42d overdue |
| 17844999 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A CONTAINER | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 3d overdue |
| 18334290 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A USABLE CONTAINER CONSISTING OF A STIFF OUTER CONTAINER AND A DEFORMABLE INNER BAG | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 34d |
| 18800659 | SYSTEM FOR STORING AND DELIVERING A MEDICINAL SOLUTION INTO/OUT OF A MULTIPLE DOSE CONTAINER | GRAY, PHILLIP A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1754 | 2 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19006473 | CONTAINER | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18800659 | SYSTEM FOR STORING AND DELIVERING A MEDICINAL SOLUTION INTO/OUT OF A MULTIPLE DOSE CONTAINER | GRAY, PHILLIP A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18334290 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A USABLE CONTAINER CONSISTING OF A STIFF OUTER CONTAINER AND A DEFORMABLE INNER BAG | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17844999 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A CONTAINER | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 1754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
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