Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nypro Inc. currently has 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently handling a single pending case for the company. The portfolio's active prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units, suggesting a level of technical variety in the pending applications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is ROBERTS, HERBERT K, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 pending office actions in total, the workload is spread across the 5 distinct examiners. This distribution across 3 distinct art units implies that the legal strategy must account for the specific nuances of 3 different examination groups. The involvement of 5 distinct examiners ensures that no single examiner's individual tendencies dominate the overall prosecution timeline.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBERTS, HERBERT K | 1 | 68.2% | +13.0% |
| RODRIGUEZ MOLINA, MARCOS JAVIER | 1 | 53.6% | +25.9% |
| ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 1 | 74.1% | +24.5% |
| LUDWIG, PETER L | 1 | 35.1% | +22.7% |
| NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 1 | 30.2% | +39.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667487 | SPICE GRINDER | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 146d overdue |
| 18841922 | FIBER PACKAGES, CONTAINERS, AND CLOSURES | RODRIGUEZ MOLINA, MARCOS JAVIER | — |
| 18547396 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AUTO-REPLENISHMENT FOR A BULK CONSUMABLES CONTAINER | LUDWIG, PETER L | — |
| 17925889 | Peelable Packaging | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667487 | SPICE GRINDER | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 146d overdue |
| 18982138 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A SOLIDS LEVEL MONITOR | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — |
| 18841922 | FIBER PACKAGES, CONTAINERS, AND CLOSURES | RODRIGUEZ MOLINA, MARCOS JAVIER | — |
| 18547396 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AUTO-REPLENISHMENT FOR A BULK CONSUMABLES CONTAINER | LUDWIG, PETER L | — |
| 17925889 | Peelable Packaging | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 2 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18982138 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A SOLIDS LEVEL MONITOR | ROBERTS, HERBERT K | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18841922 | FIBER PACKAGES, CONTAINERS, AND CLOSURES | RODRIGUEZ MOLINA, MARCOS JAVIER | 3735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18667487 | SPICE GRINDER | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 146d overdue | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18547396 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AUTO-REPLENISHMENT FOR A BULK CONSUMABLES CONTAINER | LUDWIG, PETER L | 3627 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 17925889 | Peelable Packaging | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
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