Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
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
Klabin S A is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's chemical innovations fall into three primary technical categories. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, providing multiple perspectives on the pending applications. This arrangement indicates that the individual reviews are being conducted independently by different personnel across the involved art units.
VINEIS, FRANK J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. This indicates that the 3 pending office actions are split among the 3 distinct examiners, with no single examiner handling a majority of the cases. Each examiner is responsible for exactly one action. This decentralized workload reduces the risk of a single examiner's bias affecting the entire pending portfolio of Klabin S A and ensures a varied review process.
The distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units means that each action is being reviewed in a different technical environment. The use of 3 distinct examiners ensures that each action is reviewed according to its own merits. Practitioners should be prepared to manage different examiner styles across the 3 distinct art units involved in these 3 pending office actions. The strategy must account for the specific technical requirements of each art unit while addressing individual feedback.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VINEIS, FRANK J | 1 | 39.9% | +44.8% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.6% | +28.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18770361 | PLASTIC FREE PACKAGING AND USE OF THE PACKAGING FOR MORTARS AND FERTILIZERS | VINEIS, FRANK J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710171 | BARRIER-COATED CELLULOSE-BASED SUBSTRATE | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 77d |
| 18770361 | PLASTIC FREE PACKAGING AND USE OF THE PACKAGING FOR MORTARS AND FERTILIZERS | VINEIS, FRANK J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18770361 | PLASTIC FREE PACKAGING AND USE OF THE PACKAGING FOR MORTARS AND FERTILIZERS | VINEIS, FRANK J | 1781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18710171 | BARRIER-COATED CELLULOSE-BASED SUBSTRATE | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKlabin S A has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Frank J Vineis has the most, with 1 of Klabin S A's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
