Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
18 pending office actions • 12 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sidel Participations has 17 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are spread among 16 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units, showing broad distribution across the relevant examination structure. The near match between the action and examiner figures indicates limited repeat assignment at the examiner level.
CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The workload is therefore not substantially concentrated with that examiner. Counsel may benefit from centralized docket control and shared technical guidance, while tailoring responses to the different examiners and art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (6%) |
| §103 only | 3 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 14 (78%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 2 | 62.4% | +29.0% |
| HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 2 | 42.7% | +19.2% |
| FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 1 | 61.7% | +43.1% |
| JORGENSEN, ABBY A | 1 | 73.7% | +14.4% |
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.1% | +43.1% |
| IMAM, TANZIM | 1 | 71.2% | +27.2% |
| PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 1 | 57.4% | +25.7% |
| ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1 | 66.5% | +63.1% |
| MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1 | 68.2% | +13.3% |
| CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 1 | 59.7% | +18.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204724 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR STERILIZING GAS FILTRATION MEANS, IN PARTICULAR BLOWING AIR | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 60d overdue |
| 18360343 | Interface, method and system for supervising the supply of consumables to stations of a production line | PATEL, MIRAJ T | 50d overdue |
| 18724417 | Method for regulating a heating unit in a facility for producing containers | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 30d overdue |
| 17773265 | METHOD FOR INSPECTING A CONTAINER MADE OF PLASTICS MATERIAL AND MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A CONTAINER | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 21d |
| 19139624 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CONVEYING DEVICE AND CONVEYING FACILITY | JORGENSEN, ABBY A | — |
| 19203722 | CONTAINER HAVING AN UNDULATING BASE, AND MOLD BASE FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | — |
| 19201214 | Method of producing a container from a heated preform | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | — |
| 19110712 | PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR A COMPACT BATCH OF GROUPED CONTAINERS | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18132538 | Stretching rod for forming containers | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 67d overdue |
| 17773265 | METHOD FOR INSPECTING A CONTAINER MADE OF PLASTICS MATERIAL AND MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A CONTAINER | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 21d |
| 19141846 | DEVICE FOR FOLDING A PACKAGING STRIP OF A BATCH OF CONTAINERS | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | — |
| 19139624 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CONVEYING DEVICE AND CONVEYING FACILITY | JORGENSEN, ABBY A | — |
| 19203722 | CONTAINER HAVING AN UNDULATING BASE, AND MOLD BASE FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | — |
| 19201214 | Method of producing a container from a heated preform | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | — |
| 19110712 | PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR A COMPACT BATCH OF GROUPED CONTAINERS | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
| 19109348 | PRESSURISED CONTAINER WITH DEFORMABLE SHOULDER AND DEFORMABLE BOTTOM | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 3 |
| 1754 | 3 |
| 3731 | 2 |
| 3651 | 2 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19141846 | DEVICE FOR FOLDING A PACKAGING STRIP OF A BATCH OF CONTAINERS | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19139624 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CONVEYING DEVICE AND CONVEYING FACILITY | JORGENSEN, ABBY A | 3651 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19203722 | CONTAINER HAVING AN UNDULATING BASE, AND MOLD BASE FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19201214 | Method of producing a container from a heated preform | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19110712 | PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR A COMPACT BATCH OF GROUPED CONTAINERS | IMAM, TANZIM | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19109348 | PRESSURISED CONTAINER WITH DEFORMABLE SHOULDER AND DEFORMABLE BOTTOM | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19106488 | WASHING MACHINE FOR WASHING EMPTY CONTAINERS ADAPTED TO BE FILLED WITH A POURABLE PRODUCT AND RELATIVE METHOD | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1714 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18875586 | DECORATING MACHINE WITH A MONITORING UNIT | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18972850 | Method for decontaminating the inside of preforms | CLEVELAND, TIMOTHY C | 1774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2024 |
| 18725418 | Method for controlling a facility for producing containers | THROWER, LARRY W | 1754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18724417 | Method for regulating a heating unit in a facility for producing containers | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 1742 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18577491 | Compact batch of grouped containers and method for packaging same | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18360343 | Interface, method and system for supervising the supply of consumables to stations of a production line | PATEL, MIRAJ T | 3655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18204724 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR STERILIZING GAS FILTRATION MEANS, IN PARTICULAR BLOWING AIR | HENSEL, BRENDAN A | 1758 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18132538 | Stretching rod for forming containers | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 67d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 17773265 | METHOD FOR INSPECTING A CONTAINER MADE OF PLASTICS MATERIAL AND MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A CONTAINER | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 1754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
| 17626693 | EJECTOR FINGER FOR A DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING SORTED CLOSURE ELEMENTS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING BY MOLDING | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2022 |
| 17296325 | PLASTIC CONTAINER WITH REINFORCED PANEL | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 3733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSidel Participations has 18 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 16 examiners.
Jennifer Castriotta has the most, with 2 of Sidel Participations's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
