Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Silgan White Cap LLC operates a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions currently under review. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a varied prosecution landscape. This spread suggests that the company's mechanical innovations are being evaluated under different technical classifications within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. With a total of 2 pending office actions, CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER is responsible for 1 of the company's active prosecution matters. The use of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations are being reviewed by different specialized groups, which may require distinct legal arguments for each case. This diversity in the prosecution landscape reduces the impact of any single examiner's preferences on the overall portfolio.
For a patent practitioner, the distribution of 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners means that there is no single point of focus for the portfolio. Each application must be managed according to the specific requirements of its assigned examiner and art unit. This variety in the examination process provides a broader base for the company's intellectual property development across the 2 distinct art units involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 | 1 | 62.4% | +29.0% |
| NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 1 | 81.4% | +12.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18448382 | Multi-Piece Closure with Pull Ring | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18457774 | Closure | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18448382 | Multi-Piece Closure with Pull Ring | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 21d |
| 18457774 | Closure | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18457774 | Closure | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 3733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
| 18448382 | Multi-Piece Closure with Pull Ring | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 3754 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSilgan White Cap LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jennifer Castriotta has the most, with 1 of Silgan White Cap LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
