Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Niagara Bottling LLC

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (67%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (33%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only1 (17%)
No statute on record2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
17% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
1
Communications
17% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GOINS, DAVETTA WOODS 1 65.0% +3.1%
HUSON, MONICA ANNE 1 79.5% +13.6%
CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER 1 61.8% +28.7%
POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ 1 76.5% +32.1%
COLLINS, RAVEN 1 62.3% +10.5%
CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J 1 64.9% +36.1%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18364340 MOLDED CONTAINER BASE CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J 194d overdue
18369048 Plastic Container With Strapped Base COLLINS, RAVEN 17d overdue
18397905 FACILITY LAYOUT POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ 3d overdue
18937762 Nozzle for Reduced Outward Force on Preform Finish HUSON, MONICA ANNE 34d
18759268 CONTAINER CLOSURE CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3733 2
2689 1
1742 1
2115 1
3735 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18951252 DOOR DOCK AUTOMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS GOINS, DAVETTA WOODS 2689 §102 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 18, 2024
18937762 Nozzle for Reduced Outward Force on Preform Finish HUSON, MONICA ANNE 1742 Other Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 05, 2024
18759268 CONTAINER CLOSURE CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER 3733 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 28, 2024
18397905 FACILITY LAYOUT POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ 2115 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18369048 Plastic Container With Strapped Base COLLINS, RAVEN 3735 Other Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18364340 MOLDED CONTAINER BASE CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J 3733 §103 Non-Final OA 194d overdue Pending Aug 02, 2023

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