Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Matthews International Corporation

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (11%)
8
Medium (89%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (11%)
§103 only8 (89%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

5
Life Sciences
56% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRINH, MINH N 1 85.7% +10.2%
PAGE, HANA C 1 60.2% +31.2%
VAUGHAN, JASON L 1 78.3% +20.6%
KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J 1 71.0% +17.4%
KERNS, KEVIN P 1 78.9% +21.1%
KYLE, MADISON LEIGH 1 53.8% -5.6%
NGUYEN, HUNG D 1 71.2% +30.4%
YUEN, JACKY 1 34.7% +51.4%
HINZE, LEO T 1 52.9% +10.5%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19271621 Systems and Methods for Assembling a Machine for Manufacturing a Dry Electrode TRINH, MINH N 46d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18706039 Electrically Heated and Cooled Rollers PAGE, HANA C 50d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18706034 Roller for Use in a Dry Coating Process for Producing Electrodes VAUGHAN, JASON L 93d overdue
18706039 Electrically Heated and Cooled Rollers PAGE, HANA C 50d overdue
19271621 Systems and Methods for Assembling a Machine for Manufacturing a Dry Electrode TRINH, MINH N 46d overdue
17978424 MODULAR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS YUEN, JACKY 30d overdue
18705726 Powder Hopper for the Gravity-Driven Feeding of Powdered Electrode Precursor Material Into a Nip of a Dry Electrode Caldender, Corresponding Assembly, and Corresponding Method KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J 18d overdue
17980937 ELECTRICALLY HEATED AND COOLED ROLLERS NGUYEN, HUNG D 14d
18241647 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID SAND CASTING KERNS, KEVIN P 16d
17919558 LIGHTWEIGHT ROTOGRAVURE PRINTING CYLINDER HINZE, LEO T 35d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1735 2
3729 1
1745 1
3726 1
1743 1
1722 1
3761 1
2853 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19271621 Systems and Methods for Assembling a Machine for Manufacturing a Dry Electrode TRINH, MINH N 3729 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jul 16, 2025
18706039 Electrically Heated and Cooled Rollers PAGE, HANA C 1745 §101 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18706034 Roller for Use in a Dry Coating Process for Producing Electrodes VAUGHAN, JASON L 3726 §103 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18705726 Powder Hopper for the Gravity-Driven Feeding of Powdered Electrode Precursor Material Into a Nip of a Dry Electrode Caldender, Corresponding Assembly, and Corresponding Method KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J 1743 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2024
18241647 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID SAND CASTING KERNS, KEVIN P 1735 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Sep 01, 2023
17983778 ROLLER SURFACE HARDENING KYLE, MADISON LEIGH 1722 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Nov 09, 2022
17980937 ELECTRICALLY HEATED AND COOLED ROLLERS NGUYEN, HUNG D 3761 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17978424 MODULAR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS YUEN, JACKY 1735 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022
17919558 LIGHTWEIGHT ROTOGRAVURE PRINTING CYLINDER HINZE, LEO T 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Oct 18, 2022

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