Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sig Services AG has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending actions.
The action count exceeds both the examiner and art-unit counts, showing that at least one examiner and one technical unit contain multiple pending matters. The DEMEREE assignments deserve coordinated review for recurring claim language, prior-art positions, and disclosure arguments. Other matters should remain application-specific because the profile does not identify comparable concentration elsewhere.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 2 | 68.9% | +14.2% |
| RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A | 1 | 78.3% | +14.7% |
| PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 48.6% | +39.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846202 | CONTAINER ELEMENT WITH INCLINED SIDE WALLS FOR DIMENSIONALLY STABLE FOODSTUFF CONTAINER | RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A | 15d 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280773 | Pouring Element and Composite Package With Improved Opening Behaviour | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 113d overdue |
| 18846202 | CONTAINER ELEMENT WITH INCLINED SIDE WALLS FOR DIMENSIONALLY STABLE FOODSTUFF CONTAINER | RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A | 15d overdue |
| 18850047 | LIQUID-TIGHT CONTAINER, PREFORM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USES | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18850046 | LIQUID-TIGHT CONTAINER, METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF, AND USES | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 2 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18850047 | LIQUID-TIGHT CONTAINER, PREFORM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND USES | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18850046 | LIQUID-TIGHT CONTAINER, METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF, AND USES | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18846202 | CONTAINER ELEMENT WITH INCLINED SIDE WALLS FOR DIMENSIONALLY STABLE FOODSTUFF CONTAINER | RIEGELMAN, MICHAEL A | 3654 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18280773 | Pouring Element and Composite Package With Improved Opening Behaviour | PATTERSON, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 113d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSig Services AG has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Christopher R Demeree has the most, with 2 of Sig Services AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
