Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Selig Sealing Products Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed independently by a different examiner in a separate technical division. This requires the company to manage two distinct prosecution tracks, each with its own administrative and technical requirements.
PAL, PRINCE is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. With 2 total pending actions, the workload is split between the 2 distinct examiners. The company must address the specific requirements and historical tendencies of two different examiners across the medical devices sector. For the practitioner, this requires managing two separate prosecution tracks while maintaining a consistent technical strategy within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. No single examiner or art unit dominates the current pending portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAL, PRINCE | 1 | 70.9% | +14.9% |
| KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1 | 46.2% | +46.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779324 | Inverted Tabbed Induction Liner | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 78d overdue |
| 19078055 | Foil Free Tabbed Seal | PAL, PRINCE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779324 | Inverted Tabbed Induction Liner | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 78d overdue |
| 19078055 | Foil Free Tabbed Seal | PAL, PRINCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19078055 | Foil Free Tabbed Seal | PAL, PRINCE | 3735 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 17779324 | Inverted Tabbed Induction Liner | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1782 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 78d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSelig Sealing Products Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Prince Pal has the most, with 1 of Selig Sealing Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
