Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pratt Corrugated Holdings Inc. has 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 7 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each of the 7 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner, though some examiners share the same art units.
The busiest examiner for the company is PATEL, BRIJESH V, who is currently managing 1 pending action. With 5 distinct art units involved, the portfolio demonstrates a fair amount of technical variety within the mechanical engineering sector. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate 7 different examiner styles, as the 7 pending office actions are not concentrated under any single individual. The presence of 5 distinct art units means that while the examiners are different, there is some grouping of technical subject matter. Strategy should be tailored to the 7 distinct examiners while keeping in mind the broader procedural trends within the 5 distinct art units that oversee these 7 pending office actions.
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.
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.
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 | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (86%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, BRIJESH V | 1 | 64.7% | +40.6% |
| HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1 | 51.4% | +28.9% |
| SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 1 | 51.1% | +19.0% |
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1 | 63.6% | +34.4% |
| GEHMAN, BRYON P | 1 | 73.8% | +30.6% |
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.1% |
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201345 | NESTED INSULATED PACKAGING | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 21d |
| 19248197 | INSULATED PACKAGING ASSEMBLY WITH MULTI-LAYER A-B LINER | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 23d |
| 19070799 | FILM DEPOSITION DELIVERY CONTAINER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 42d |
| 19056573 | STARCH-CELLULOSE COMPOSITE MATERIAL | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18925629 | METHOD OF USING DOUBLE-HANDLE BOX | GEHMAN, BRYON P | — |
| 18899210 | SEALABLE BOX ASSEMBLY | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201345 | NESTED INSULATED PACKAGING | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 21d |
| 19248197 | INSULATED PACKAGING ASSEMBLY WITH MULTI-LAYER A-B LINER | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 23d |
| 19070799 | FILM DEPOSITION DELIVERY CONTAINER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 42d |
| 19556349 | MODULAR SHIPPING ASSEMBLY WITH INSULATOR WRAP AND INNER INSULATOR BOXES | PATEL, BRIJESH V | — |
| 19056573 | STARCH-CELLULOSE COMPOSITE MATERIAL | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| 18925629 | METHOD OF USING DOUBLE-HANDLE BOX | GEHMAN, BRYON P | — |
| 18899210 | SEALABLE BOX ASSEMBLY | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 3 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19556349 | MODULAR SHIPPING ASSEMBLY WITH INSULATOR WRAP AND INNER INSULATOR BOXES | PATEL, BRIJESH V | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2026 |
| 19248197 | INSULATED PACKAGING ASSEMBLY WITH MULTI-LAYER A-B LINER | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19070799 | FILM DEPOSITION DELIVERY CONTAINER | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19056573 | STARCH-CELLULOSE COMPOSITE MATERIAL | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18925629 | METHOD OF USING DOUBLE-HANDLE BOX | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18899210 | SEALABLE BOX ASSEMBLY | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18201345 | NESTED INSULATED PACKAGING | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
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