Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pulpac AB is managing 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, showing a balanced distribution of technical oversight. With 5 actions spread across 3 art units, the company's chemistry-related filings are being examined in several different specialized groups within the patent office.
MELENDEZ, ARMAND is the busiest examiner for the company with 2 pending office actions. The presence of 3 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions means that most examiners are handling more than one matter or the workload is slightly concentrated. Having 3 distinct art units involved for only 5 actions suggests that the company's materials technology is diverse enough to trigger reviews from multiple specialized departments.
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 | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 2 | 46.2% | +43.1% |
| WANG, ALEXANDER A | 2 | 66.2% | +20.7% |
| IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E | 1 | 81.0% | +13.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880318 | FORMING MOULD COMPRISING A MOVABLE ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR FORMING CELLULOSE PRODUCTS | IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18388165 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CELLULOSE PRODUCT, CELLULOSE PRODUCT FORMING APPARATUS AND CELLULOSE PRODUCT | WANG, ALEXANDER A | 7d |
| 18388627 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CELLULOSE PRODUCT, CELLULOSE PRODUCT FORMING APPARATUS AND CELLULOSE PRODUCT | WANG, ALEXANDER A | 9d |
| 18855037 | A METHOD FOR FORMING A CELLULOSE PRODUCT IN A DRY-FORMING MOULD SYSTEM | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 20d |
| 18880318 | FORMING MOULD COMPRISING A MOVABLE ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR FORMING CELLULOSE PRODUCTS | IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E | — |
| 18041940 | Multi-Cavity Forming Mould System and a Method for Forming Cellulose Products in a Multi-Cavity Forming Mould System | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 2 |
| 1741 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880318 | FORMING MOULD COMPRISING A MOVABLE ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR FORMING CELLULOSE PRODUCTS | IGBOKWE, NICHOLAS E | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18855037 | A METHOD FOR FORMING A CELLULOSE PRODUCT IN A DRY-FORMING MOULD SYSTEM | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18388627 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CELLULOSE PRODUCT, CELLULOSE PRODUCT FORMING APPARATUS AND CELLULOSE PRODUCT | WANG, ALEXANDER A | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18388165 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A CELLULOSE PRODUCT, CELLULOSE PRODUCT FORMING APPARATUS AND CELLULOSE PRODUCT | WANG, ALEXANDER A | 1741 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18041940 | Multi-Cavity Forming Mould System and a Method for Forming Cellulose Products in a Multi-Cavity Forming Mould System | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
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