Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Huhtamaki Flexible Packaging Germany GmbH & Co. Kg is managing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company is engaging with multiple specialized review groups at the USPTO. The presence of 2 distinct examiners suggests that the pending applications are receiving independent evaluations from different officials.
MIGGINS, MICHAEL C is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for 1 of the 2 total pending actions for the company. The workload distribution means that the portfolio's progress is not entirely dependent on the pace of 1 individual examiner.
The Chemistry & Materials sector represents the current active prosecution front. Successful prosecution will require addressing the concerns of MIGGINS, MICHAEL C and the other examiner within the 2 assigned art units. Monitoring the status of the 2 pending office actions is essential for understanding the company's near-term intellectual property trajectory.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1 | 80.8% | +16.6% |
| GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 1 | 61.2% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18582610 | High Barrier Packaging Laminate with Improved Machinability | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517368 | Multilayer Tube Laminate with Paper Layer and Protective Coating Arranged Thereon, Tubular Body and Tube | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 7d |
| 18582610 | High Barrier Packaging Laminate with Improved Machinability | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18582610 | High Barrier Packaging Laminate with Improved Machinability | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18517368 | Multilayer Tube Laminate with Paper Layer and Protective Coating Arranged Thereon, Tubular Body and Tube | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
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