Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ranpak Corp. has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed across 3 examiners and 3 art units, indicating distinct examination assignments for the pending record.
FERRERO, EDUARDO R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger share in the available data, so counsel should use matter-specific response analysis rather than rely on a single examiner playbook.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 1 | 42.7% | +6.2% |
| LOWE, MICHAEL S | 1 | 67.0% | +19.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18834013 | LIFTING DEVICE FOR A DUNNAGE CONVERSION MACHINE | LOWE, MICHAEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18834855 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINTING ON A CONTAINER | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18834013 | LIFTING DEVICE FOR A DUNNAGE CONVERSION MACHINE | LOWE, MICHAEL S | 3652 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRanpak Corp. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Alejandro Valencia has the most, with 1 of Ranpak Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
