Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Ontex Group N.V.

8 pending office actions • 1 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 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.

2
Hard (25%)
6
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (75%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
100% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ARBLE, JESSICA R 2 66.0% +25.9%
WENG, KAI H 1 70.2% +17.3%
DAKKAK, JIHAD 1 48.5% +46.0%
KIDWELL, MICHELE M 1 63.8% +19.2%
MENSH, ANDREW J 1 64.0% +19.3%
SU, SUSAN SHAN 1 71.9% +23.6%
HAN, SETH 1 59.1% +27.1%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17912122 ABSORBENT ARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING SU, SUSAN SHAN 15d
18715854 ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND PROCESS OF MAKING WENG, KAI H

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18027434 ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED MULTI-LAYERED CORE ARBLE, JESSICA R 44d overdue
17912122 ABSORBENT ARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING SU, SUSAN SHAN 15d
18039568 ABSORBENT ARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING KIDWELL, MICHELE M 28d
18715854 ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND PROCESS OF MAKING WENG, KAI H
18715612 WRAPPER FOR ABSORBENT ARTICLE DAKKAK, JIHAD
18639841 ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH FUNCTIONAL CORE MATRIX ARBLE, JESSICA R
17915915 SMART ABSORBENT ARTICLES MENSH, ANDREW J
17624298 SUBSTRATE, ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR WETNESS MONITORING HAN, SETH

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3781 8

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18715854 ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND PROCESS OF MAKING WENG, KAI H 3781 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 03, 2024
18715612 WRAPPER FOR ABSORBENT ARTICLE DAKKAK, JIHAD 3781 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 31, 2024
18639841 ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH FUNCTIONAL CORE MATRIX ARBLE, JESSICA R 3781 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 18, 2024
18039568 ABSORBENT ARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING KIDWELL, MICHELE M 3781 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 31, 2023
18027434 ABSORBENT ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED MULTI-LAYERED CORE ARBLE, JESSICA R 3781 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
17915915 SMART ABSORBENT ARTICLES MENSH, ANDREW J 3781 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 29, 2022
17912122 ABSORBENT ARTICLES AND METHODS OF MAKING SU, SUSAN SHAN 3781 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Sep 16, 2022
17624298 SUBSTRATE, ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR WETNESS MONITORING HAN, SETH 3781 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 31, 2021

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