Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Huhtamaki Oyj holds a company patent portfolio with 4 pending office actions. These filings are in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area and are spread across 2 distinct art units. The use of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company innovations are being evaluated by multiple specialized technical groups at the USPTO.
Prosecution is conducted by 3 distinct examiners. DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, personally handling 2 pending office actions. This means that the decisions of DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R will have a significant impact on the portfolio. The remaining cases are split among the other distinct examiners, requiring a strategy that balances the influence of the busiest examiner with the individual styles of the others. Practitioners should focus on the tendencies of DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R while also preparing for the varied perspectives found across the 2 distinct art units.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 2 | 68.9% | +14.2% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
| SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 1 | 51.0% | +19.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646700 | CONTAINER HAVING ENHANCED WALL INTEGRITY AND ALIGNMENT ELEMENT | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 62d |
| 18889155 | CONTAINER HAVING UPPER RIM WITH IMPROVED SEAL | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18646700 | CONTAINER HAVING ENHANCED WALL INTEGRITY AND ALIGNMENT ELEMENT | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 62d |
| 18438242 | PACKAGING UNIT MOULDED FROM PULP MATERIALS WITH IMPROVED VENTILATION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 69d |
| 19071480 | CONTAINER AND BOTTOM END CONSTRUCTION THEREFOR | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18889155 | CONTAINER HAVING UPPER RIM WITH IMPROVED SEAL | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 2 |
| 3736 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19071480 | CONTAINER AND BOTTOM END CONSTRUCTION THEREFOR | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 18889155 | CONTAINER HAVING UPPER RIM WITH IMPROVED SEAL | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18646700 | CONTAINER HAVING ENHANCED WALL INTEGRITY AND ALIGNMENT ELEMENT | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18438242 | PACKAGING UNIT MOULDED FROM PULP MATERIALS WITH IMPROVED VENTILATION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 3736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHuhtamaki Oyj has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Christopher R Demeree has the most, with 2 of Huhtamaki Oyj's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
