Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ring Container Technologies LLC is navigating 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and the same number of art units. This distribution shows that the company's legal strategy involves multiple technical silos within the patent office. With the distinct art units for the 6 actions, the portfolio demonstrates technical variety within the mechanical engineering field.
HUSON, MONICA ANNE serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 2 pending office actions under review. Because there are 5 distinct examiners for the actions, HUSON, MONICA ANNE is the only individual handling more than a single matter. The alignment of the art units with the actions suggests a range of medical or mechanical technologies being pursued. Practitioners can expect to interact with a different examiner for nearly every pending action, as the examiners are currently active across the total cases.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 | 30.0% | +35.4% |
| HICKS, ROBERT J | 1 | 72.2% | +3.7% |
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.4% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 51.5% | +12.1% |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19236048 | CONTAINER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | LACHICA, ERICSON M | 55d |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3735 | 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 | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 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 |
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