Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Intertape Polymer Corp. has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting a focused technical scope for the company's current filings. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 4 pending office actions is currently being reviewed by a different individual. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions and examiners ensures a diversity of perspectives across the portfolio.
Chinyere J Rushing-Tucker is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 pending office actions in total, this examiner handles one-quarter of the current workload. The use of 4 distinct examiners for only 4 actions shows a high level of examiner diversity for a small portfolio. Practitioners should be prepared for different examination styles across the 2 distinct art units involved. This distribution suggests that the company's medical and mechanical innovations are being evaluated by different specialized groups within the USPTO despite the small number of pending cases.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | 1 | 74.8% | +10.7% |
| SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1 | 15.2% | +22.6% |
| SURYAWANSHI, SURESH | 1 | 88.4% | +12.6% |
| ALIE, GHASSEM | 1 | 69.3% | +32.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18677362 | TAPE MONITORING SYSTEM | SURYAWANSHI, SURESH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18488181 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIR PILLOW CONVEYANCE AND SEPARATION | ALIE, GHASSEM | 26d |
| 18855612 | REPULPABLE REINFORCED WATER-ACTIVATED TAPE | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18488181 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIR PILLOW CONVEYANCE AND SEPARATION | ALIE, GHASSEM | 26d |
| 19359337 | WATER ACTIVATED TAPE (WAT) CARTON SEALING APPARATUS WITH TOP AND BOTTOM CARTON FEEDING AND METHOD OF CARTON SEALING | RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | — |
| 18855612 | REPULPABLE REINFORCED WATER-ACTIVATED TAPE | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| 18677362 | TAPE MONITORING SYSTEM | SURYAWANSHI, SURESH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19359337 | WATER ACTIVATED TAPE (WAT) CARTON SEALING APPARATUS WITH TOP AND BOTTOM CARTON FEEDING AND METHOD OF CARTON SEALING | RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 18855612 | REPULPABLE REINFORCED WATER-ACTIVATED TAPE | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18677362 | TAPE MONITORING SYSTEM | SURYAWANSHI, SURESH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18488181 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AIR PILLOW CONVEYANCE AND SEPARATION | ALIE, GHASSEM | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
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