Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.

11 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
3
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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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%)
10
Medium (91%)
1
Easy (9%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (91%)
§112 only1 (9%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
91% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
9% 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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 4 61.4% +25.8%
DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S 3 61.8% +10.9%
SNELTING, ERIN LYNN 2 70.0% +33.4%
LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING 1 66.5% +21.2%
MYERS, GLENN F 1 77.3% +19.4%

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18659498 COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR A GLASS MELTING APPARATUS FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 60d overdue
18693511 INCLUDING SMALL AESTHETIC BUBBLES IN GLASS ARTICLES FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 43d overdue
17492550 BULK MATERIAL DISCHARGING MYERS, GLENN F 43d overdue
18455599 MOLTEN GLASS TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S 28d overdue
18199696 Feed Material for Producing Flint Glass using Submerged Combustion Melting FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 15d overdue
18113754 MOLTEN GLASS TRANSPORT GUIDE FOR A TRANSPORT CUP DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S 2d overdue
18458138 MOLTEN GLASS DELIVERY FUNNEL WITH GAS PERMEABLE CONDUIT DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S 1d overdue
17947121 AQUEOUS ION EXCHANGE STRENGTHENING OF GLASS ARTICLES LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1741 10
3652 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18659498 COMPOSITE MATERIAL FOR A GLASS MELTING APPARATUS FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18693511 INCLUDING SMALL AESTHETIC BUBBLES IN GLASS ARTICLES FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Mar 19, 2024
18412356 FINING OF SUBMERGED COMBUSTION OR OTHER GLASS SNELTING, ERIN LYNN 1741 §103 Final Rejection 49d Pending Jan 12, 2024
18524369 GLASS CONTAINER FORMING SYSTEM AND METHOD SNELTING, ERIN LYNN 1741 §112 Final Rejection 53d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18458138 MOLTEN GLASS DELIVERY FUNNEL WITH GAS PERMEABLE CONDUIT DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S 1741 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Aug 29, 2023
18455599 MOLTEN GLASS TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S 1741 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2023
18325207 EXHAUST STACK FOR GLASS MELTER FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 1741 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 30, 2023
18199696 Feed Material for Producing Flint Glass using Submerged Combustion Melting FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 19, 2023
18113754 MOLTEN GLASS TRANSPORT GUIDE FOR A TRANSPORT CUP DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S 1741 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2023
17947121 AQUEOUS ION EXCHANGE STRENGTHENING OF GLASS ARTICLES LEE, STEVEN SHIH-CHING 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 17, 2022
17492550 BULK MATERIAL DISCHARGING MYERS, GLENN F 3652 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Oct 01, 2021

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