Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pac Tech - Packaging Technologies GmbH is managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the portfolio involves 3 distinct art units, showing that each pending matter is being evaluated in a different technical environment. This perfect distribution across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's current chemistry-related innovations are being treated as entirely separate technical and administrative matters.
GAMINO, CARLOS J is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is balanced with no single examiner handling more than 1 action. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemistry-related innovations are being categorized into several different examination groups, each with its own set of standards and precedents. This lack of overlap in both examiners and art units means that the applicant must be prepared for 3 unique prosecution tracks.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +45.6% |
| BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN | 1 | 78.8% | +4.5% |
| MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18375525 | Laser-Assisted Soldering Apparatus | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990155 | Method of Forming Solder Contact Pins | GAMINO, CARLOS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18990155 | Method of Forming Solder Contact Pins | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18578196 | Apparatus, System and Method for Repairing a Test Contact Arrangement | BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18375525 | Laser-Assisted Soldering Apparatus | MITCHUM, DREW JOSEPH | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2023 |
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