Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Silgan Plastics LLC has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the company's current prosecution efforts are localized within a specific technical niche and handled by a single point of contact at the office. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused subject matter for the current filings, allowing for a specialized review of the 1 pending office action.
The busiest examiner, MELENDEZ, ARMAND, is overseeing 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the total pending volume for the company at this time. With 1 distinct examiner managing the workload, the prosecution process remains highly centralized. The company's activity within the Chemistry & Materials sector is currently limited to this specific interaction, as evidenced by the 1 pending office action and the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner. This structure simplifies the administrative oversight required for the 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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.2% | +43.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18505655 | Integrally, Extrusion Blow Molded Container, Label and RFID Tag | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 76d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18505655 | Integrally, Extrusion Blow Molded Container, Label and RFID Tag | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18505655 | Integrally, Extrusion Blow Molded Container, Label and RFID Tag | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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