Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Keter Plastic Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, so examiner assignments are fully separate while one art unit handles more than one matter.
ENGLISH, PETER C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can manage the matters individually while comparing the matters assigned to the repeated art unit for consistent technical positioning.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENGLISH, PETER C | 1 | 33.5% | +26.9% |
| WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 1 | 57.7% | +14.9% |
| GEHMAN, BRYON P | 1 | 73.7% | +30.6% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19270524 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLIES | ENGLISH, PETER C | — |
| 19229693 | Utility Assembly and Coupling Mechanism | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | — |
| 19095623 | Tool Storage | GEHMAN, BRYON P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 2 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19270524 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLIES | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2025 |
| 19229693 | Utility Assembly and Coupling Mechanism | WEINERTH, GIDEON R | 3736 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19095623 | Tool Storage | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialKeter Plastic Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Peter C English has the most, with 1 of Keter Plastic Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
