Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sappi Netherlands Services B V currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW, is responsible for 2 pending office actions, which represents a majority of the company's current pending workload. The fact that examiners are handling 3 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units suggests a concentrated prosecution environment within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
For practitioners, the role of RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW is particularly important, as he manages 2 of the 3 pending office actions. This concentration allows for a more unified strategy when dealing with this specific examiner. However, the presence of 2 distinct art units still requires the company to address different technical standards. With 3 pending office actions in total, the company must balance its efforts between the 2 distinct examiners. The 2 pending office actions assigned to RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW provide an opportunity to establish a consistent dialogue, while the remaining action requires a separate approach for the other distinct examiner. This distribution across the 2 distinct art units ensures that the company's chemical innovations are being reviewed by multiple specialized groups.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 2 | 63.2% | +34.6% |
| SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 1 | 71.6% | +9.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012476 | BARRIER PAPER OR BOARD | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 2d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012476 | BARRIER PAPER OR BOARD | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 2d overdue |
| 18992007 | TRANSLUCENT PAPER PRODUCTS | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 2 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992007 | TRANSLUCENT PAPER PRODUCTS | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18992040 | MICROPLASTIC-FREE COATED PAPER | SHEWAREGED, BETELHEM | 1785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18012476 | BARRIER PAPER OR BOARD | RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW | 1748 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSappi Netherlands Services B V has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Stephen Matthew Russell has the most, with 2 of Sappi Netherlands Services B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
