Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ring Container Technologies LLC has 8 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 7 examiners and 6 art units, showing a docket distributed across examination groups with modest concentration at the examiner level. Art-unit context is therefore relevant when assessing prosecution patterns.
HUSON, MONICA ANNE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel may use the shared technical area to maintain consistent terminology and disclosure positions, while tailoring responses to the different examiners and art units. The matters assigned to the busiest examiner warrant coordinated review for recurring issues.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 2 | 79.6% | +13.5% |
| LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1 | 29.8% | +35.2% |
| HICKS, ROBERT J | 1 | 72.1% | +3.8% |
| BATTISTI, DEREK J | 1 | 51.6% | +35.7% |
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.6% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 52.0% | +15.5% |
| POON, ROBERT | 1 | 41.9% | +26.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19236048 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 55d |
| 17950365 | CONTAINER SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | — |
| 17527530 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17403050 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | POON, ROBERT | 31d overdue |
| 19236048 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 55d |
| 18125564 | CONTAINER AND PACKAGING SYSTEM | BATTISTI, DEREK J | 60d |
| 19196047 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | — |
| 18638958 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | — |
| 17950365 | CONTAINER SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | — |
| 17527530 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 2 |
| 3735 | 2 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19236048 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 1792 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 19196047 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 1742 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19050379 | CONTAINER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | HICKS, ROBERT J | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18638958 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 1742 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18125564 | CONTAINER AND PACKAGING SYSTEM | BATTISTI, DEREK J | 3734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 17950365 | CONTAINER SYSTEM AND METHOD | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
| 17527530 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2021 |
| 17403050 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | POON, ROBERT | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialRing Container Technologies LLC has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Monica Anne Huson has the most, with 2 of Ring Container Technologies LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
