Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sicpa Holding S.A. has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so the current profile is distributed across separate examination settings.
WALSH, DANIEL I is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner or art unit accounts for a repeated concentration in the listed workload.
The small, dispersed profile supports direct matter-level management. Counsel can compare claim themes across the three matters while tailoring responses to each examiner and art unit. The data does not indicate a need for a portfolio strategy centered on one examination relationship.
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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALSH, DANIEL I | 1 | 64.4% | +12.4% |
| HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1 | 63.3% | +39.4% |
| ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 1 | 40.8% | +15.5% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881550 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING SECURITY FEATURES MADE OF OXIDATIVE DRYING INTAGLIO INKS | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 52d overdue |
| 19471612 | APPARATUSES AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL EFFECTS LAYERS | WALSH, DANIEL I | — |
| 18996387 | RYLENE-BASED UV CURABLE SECURITY INK COMPOSITIONS | HIGGINS, GERARD T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19471612 | APPARATUSES AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL EFFECTS LAYERS | WALSH, DANIEL I | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 18996387 | RYLENE-BASED UV CURABLE SECURITY INK COMPOSITIONS | HIGGINS, GERARD T | 1785 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18881550 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING SECURITY FEATURES MADE OF OXIDATIVE DRYING INTAGLIO INKS | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | 52d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSicpa Holding S.A. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Daniel I Walsh has the most, with 1 of Sicpa Holding S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
