Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
International Refills Company Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 2 examiners and 2 art units, showing some examiner concentration alongside separate art-unit assignments.
GARFT, CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner handles most of the pending workload, making consistency between those responses a practical prosecution priority. The remaining matter is assigned to another examiner and should be reviewed independently.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +19.0% |
| GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 59.0% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18768845 | WASTE DISPOSAL DEVICE AND FILM DISPENSING CASSETTE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 28d |
| 14530914 | FILM-DISPENSING CASSETTE AND RIMMED BAG FOR WASTE-DISPOSAL UNIT | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18768845 | WASTE DISPOSAL DEVICE AND FILM DISPENSING CASSETTE | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §102 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 14530914 | FILM-DISPENSING CASSETTE AND RIMMED BAG FOR WASTE-DISPOSAL UNIT | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 3632 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Nov 03, 2014 |
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Start Free TrialInternational Refills Company Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Elizabeth J Volz has the most, with 1 of International Refills Company Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
