Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • 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
Plastipak Packaging Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are assigned to 3 examiners across 3 art units, so each pending matter occupies a distinct examiner and technical setting.
KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The data does not show a recurring examiner concentration, making matter-by-matter prosecution review the appropriate approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.6% |
| CHIANG, JENNIFER C | 1 | 70.6% | +29.9% |
| MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1 | 67.2% | +31.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19061010 | PLASTIC CONTAINER AND METHOD | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 17d overdue |
| 18662171 | SPOUT PROTECTOR AND SYSTEM | CHIANG, JENNIFER C | 3d overdue |
| 18649303 | MOLD INSERT, MOLD ASSEMBLY, AND SYSTEM | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19061010 | PLASTIC CONTAINER AND METHOD | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 17d overdue |
| 18662171 | SPOUT PROTECTOR AND SYSTEM | CHIANG, JENNIFER C | 3d overdue |
| 18649303 | MOLD INSERT, MOLD ASSEMBLY, AND SYSTEM | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19061010 | PLASTIC CONTAINER AND METHOD | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18662171 | SPOUT PROTECTOR AND SYSTEM | CHIANG, JENNIFER C | 3754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18649303 | MOLD INSERT, MOLD ASSEMBLY, AND SYSTEM | MALEKZADEH, SEYED MASOUD | 1754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPlastipak Packaging Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Andrew Thomas Kirsch has the most, with 1 of Plastipak Packaging Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
