Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Storopack Hans Reichenecker GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct art units, ensuring that each application is being reviewed by a different specialized technical group. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's mechanical innovations span multiple sub-disciplines, requiring different types of technical expertise from the patent office. The 2 pending office actions represent the company's current efforts to secure its mechanical and packaging innovations. This structure ensures that each pending application is being reviewed in a unique technical environment.
RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. The company's workload is evenly distributed between 2 distinct examiners, with each individual responsible for 1 pending matter. This arrangement means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current prosecution. By interacting with 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units, the company is navigating 2 completely separate administrative and technical paths, which helps to diversify its patenting risk and gain broader feedback. This distribution ensures that each application receives an independent review.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | 1 | 74.8% | +10.7% |
| MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1 | 80.8% | +16.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546343 | PROTECTIVE PACKAGING PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A PROTECTIVE PACKAGING PRODUCT | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 70d |
| 18870860 | DEVICE FOR CONVERTING A STARTING MATERIAL INTO A PADDING MATERIAL FOR FILLING THE EMPTY VOLUME IN A CONTAINER, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A DEVICE | RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546343 | PROTECTIVE PACKAGING PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A PROTECTIVE PACKAGING PRODUCT | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 70d |
| 18870860 | DEVICE FOR CONVERTING A STARTING MATERIAL INTO A PADDING MATERIAL FOR FILLING THE EMPTY VOLUME IN A CONTAINER, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A DEVICE | RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18870860 | DEVICE FOR CONVERTING A STARTING MATERIAL INTO A PADDING MATERIAL FOR FILLING THE EMPTY VOLUME IN A CONTAINER, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A DEVICE | RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18546343 | PROTECTIVE PACKAGING PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A PROTECTIVE PACKAGING PRODUCT | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
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