Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Silgan White Cap LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a concentrated technical focus for the company's current applications. This concentration in 2 distinct art units may allow for more specialized examination of their mechanical innovations. Practitioners should monitor these 2 distinct art units for consistent examination trends.
The portfolio involves 3 distinct examiners, which means each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. POOS, MADISON LYNN is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split among the officials. This lack of examiner concentration means that the company's success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area depends on the independent reviews of 3 different examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POOS, MADISON LYNN | 1 | 59.8% | +21.8% |
| CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 1 | 62.2% | +28.8% |
| NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 1 | 81.3% | +12.7% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18968707 | Closure with Liner | POOS, MADISON LYNN | 6d |
| 18448382 | Multi-Piece Closure with Pull Ring | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 21d |
| 18457774 | Closure | CASTRIOTTA, JENNIFER | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 2 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18968707 | Closure with Liner | POOS, MADISON LYNN | 3733 | Other | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 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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