Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Niagara Bottling LLC has 8 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 8 actions are distributed across 8 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 8 pending applications is being reviewed by a different person. This ratio of examiners to actions provides the company with a variety of feedback from the examining corps across its mechanical engineering portfolio.
The workload is spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a moderate level of technical diversity within the field. AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the 8 pending office actions are divided among the examiners, the workload is balanced with no examiner handling more than 1 case. This structure requires the company to manage separate examiner relationships across the 4 distinct art units involved in the prosecution process.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | 1 | 71.0% | +26.9% |
| GOINS, DAVETTA WOODS | 1 | 65.9% | +4.0% |
| CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 1 | 62.2% | +28.8% |
| POOS, MADISON LYNN | 1 | 59.8% | +21.8% |
| POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | 1 | 76.6% | +32.3% |
| GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 1 | 61.2% | +25.3% |
| COLLINS, RAVEN | 1 | 62.5% | +10.4% |
| CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 1 | 65.1% | +35.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18364340 | MOLDED CONTAINER BASE | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 194d overdue |
| 19092621 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREFORM STERILIZATION | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | — |
| 18759268 | CONTAINER CLOSURE | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 |
| 19092621 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREFORM STERILIZATION | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | — |
| 18759268 | CONTAINER CLOSURE | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | — |
| 18669177 | Plastic Bottle | POOS, MADISON LYNN | — |
| 18562081 | PLASTIC CONTAINER WITH OXYGEN SCAVENGER AND PASSIVE OXYGEN BARRIER IN BODY PORTION | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 3 |
| 3735 | 2 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19092621 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREFORM STERILIZATION | AHMED ALI, MOHAMED K | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18951252 | DOOR DOCK AUTOMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | GOINS, DAVETTA WOODS | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18759268 | CONTAINER CLOSURE | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 3733 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18669177 | Plastic Bottle | POOS, MADISON LYNN | 3733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18397905 | FACILITY LAYOUT | POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | 2115 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18562081 | PLASTIC CONTAINER WITH OXYGEN SCAVENGER AND PASSIVE OXYGEN BARRIER IN BODY PORTION | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18369048 | Plastic Container With Strapped Base | COLLINS, RAVEN | 3735 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18364340 | MOLDED CONTAINER BASE | CASTELLANO, STEPHEN J | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 194d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
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