Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mondi AG currently has 6 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter receives an independent review from a different official. This distribution requires the company to manage six separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
The portfolio is active within 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's technical innovations are focused on a few specific areas within the broader chemistry sector. The busiest examiner, RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This shows that the workload is spread evenly across the assigned examiners, with no concentration of cases under any single individual.
Practitioners should note that the use of 3 distinct art units necessitates a flexible approach to prosecution. Because RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW only manages 1 pending office action, the overall strategy for the Chemistry & Materials portfolio must be coordinated across multiple points of contact to ensure consistency in the company's intellectual property protection.
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 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.6% | +34.4% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.3% | +33.1% |
| ATTEL, NINA KAY | 1 | 41.4% | +27.8% |
| FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1 | 44.3% | +2.3% |
| MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1 | 80.8% | +16.6% |
| BATTISTI, DEREK J | 1 | 51.4% | +36.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18699954 | PACKAGING MATERIAL MADE OF UNBLEACHED KRAFT PAPER, SLEEVE PRODUCED THEREFROM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18863727 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING AT LEAST ONE LIGNIN FRACTION, LIGNIN DERIVATIVES, LOW-MOLECULAR CARBOXYLIC ACIDS, INORGANIC SALT, OR A MIXTURE THEREOF FROM FILTRATES ORIGINATING FROM A KRAFT PROCESS | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18862577 | KRAFT PAPER | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
| 18720643 | PAPER WEB AND METHOD FOR FORMING A PAPER WEB | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | — |
| 18293611 | METHOD FOR PACKAGING AN OBJECT IN A PAPER BAG, AND PAPER BAG | BATTISTI, DEREK 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722634 | PACKAGING BAG AND USE OF THE PACKAGING BAG | ATTEL, NINA KAY | 35d |
| 18863727 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING AT LEAST ONE LIGNIN FRACTION, LIGNIN DERIVATIVES, LOW-MOLECULAR CARBOXYLIC ACIDS, INORGANIC SALT, OR A MIXTURE THEREOF FROM FILTRATES ORIGINATING FROM A KRAFT PROCESS | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18862577 | KRAFT PAPER | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
| 18699954 | PACKAGING MATERIAL MADE OF UNBLEACHED KRAFT PAPER, SLEEVE PRODUCED THEREFROM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — |
| 18293611 | METHOD FOR PACKAGING AN OBJECT IN A PAPER BAG, AND PAPER BAG | BATTISTI, DEREK J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 2 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18863727 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING AT LEAST ONE LIGNIN FRACTION, LIGNIN DERIVATIVES, LOW-MOLECULAR CARBOXYLIC ACIDS, INORGANIC SALT, OR A MIXTURE THEREOF FROM FILTRATES ORIGINATING FROM A KRAFT PROCESS | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18862577 | KRAFT PAPER | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18722634 | PACKAGING BAG AND USE OF THE PACKAGING BAG | ATTEL, NINA KAY | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18720643 | PAPER WEB AND METHOD FOR FORMING A PAPER WEB | FISCHER, JUSTIN R | 1749 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2024 |
| 18699954 | PACKAGING MATERIAL MADE OF UNBLEACHED KRAFT PAPER, SLEEVE PRODUCED THEREFROM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18293611 | METHOD FOR PACKAGING AN OBJECT IN A PAPER BAG, AND PAPER BAG | BATTISTI, DEREK J | 3734 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
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