Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL Corporation

13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)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.

8
Hard (62%)
5
Medium (38%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (8%)
§103 only5 (38%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (54%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
54% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
31% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
8% of docket
1
Business / Other
8% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD 1 67.2% +31.8%
WORKU, KIDEST 1 84.9% +2.6%
ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D 1 40.7% +15.5%
PAGE, HANA C 1 59.9% +32.7%
KIM, YUNJU 1 55.4% +34.9%
KENNEDY, TIMOTHY J 1 71.1% +17.5%
CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 1 58.8% +37.6%
SIMONE, CATHERINE A 1 73.3% +23.0%
KERNS, KEVIN P 1 79.0% +21.0%
KYLE, MADISON LEIGH 1 64.7% +11.4%

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
18779547 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VECTORIZED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WORKU, KIDEST

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17980937 ELECTRICALLY HEATED AND COOLED ROLLERS NGUYEN, HUNG D 14d
17983778 ROLLER SURFACE HARDENING KYLE, MADISON LEIGH 53d
18809697 Heating Device for Heating a Roller, Roller, and a Calender or Embossing Cassette MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD
18718118 Roll Assembly for Producing Non-Destructively Embossed Barrier Paper for Air-Tight and Water-Vapour-Tight Sealing of Packages, and Corresponding Method ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D
18706049 Nip Roller Adjustment KIM, YUNJU
18694678 Assembly for Measuring the Thickness of a Continuous Material Web CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL
18508694 GRAPHITE MATERIALS AND DEVICES WITH SURFACE MICRO-TEXTURING SIMONE, CATHERINE A
14272622 Cantilevered Micro-Valve and Inkjet Printer Using Said Valve VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18706039 Electrically Heated and Cooled Rollers PAGE, HANA C 50d 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
18241647 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID SAND CASTING KERNS, KEVIN P 16d
17983778 ROLLER SURFACE HARDENING KYLE, MADISON LEIGH 53d
18809697 Heating Device for Heating a Roller, Roller, and a Calender or Embossing Cassette MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD
18718118 Roll Assembly for Producing Non-Destructively Embossed Barrier Paper for Air-Tight and Water-Vapour-Tight Sealing of Packages, and Corresponding Method ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D
18706049 Nip Roller Adjustment KIM, YUNJU
18694678 Assembly for Measuring the Thickness of a Continuous Material Web CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2853 3
1754 1
1745 1
1742 1
1743 1
2877 1
1781 1
1735 1
1722 1
3761 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18809697 Heating Device for Heating a Roller, Roller, and a Calender or Embossing Cassette MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD 1754 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 20, 2024
18779547 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VECTORIZED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WORKU, KIDEST §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 22, 2024
18718118 Roll Assembly for Producing Non-Destructively Embossed Barrier Paper for Air-Tight and Water-Vapour-Tight Sealing of Packages, and Corresponding Method ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D 2853 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 10, 2024
18706039 Electrically Heated and Cooled Rollers PAGE, HANA C 1745 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18706049 Nip Roller Adjustment KIM, YUNJU 1742 §101§103 Non-Final OA 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 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Apr 29, 2024
18694678 Assembly for Measuring the Thickness of a Continuous Material Web CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 2877 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 22, 2024
18508694 GRAPHITE MATERIALS AND DEVICES WITH SURFACE MICRO-TEXTURING SIMONE, CATHERINE A 1781 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 14, 2023
18241647 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID SAND CASTING KERNS, KEVIN P 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Sep 01, 2023
17983778 ROLLER SURFACE HARDENING KYLE, MADISON LEIGH 1722 §103§112 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Nov 09, 2022
17980937 ELECTRICALLY HEATED AND COOLED ROLLERS NGUYEN, HUNG D 3761 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 04, 2022
17919558 LIGHTWEIGHT ROTOGRAVURE PRINTING CYLINDER HINZE, LEO T 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Oct 18, 2022
14272622 Cantilevered Micro-Valve and Inkjet Printer Using Said Valve VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO 2853 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2014

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