Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Swedish Match North Europe AB is a company patent portfolio with 3 pending office actions. These actions are situated within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution of these matters is handled by 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution shows that the portfolio's current workload is not concentrated under a single examiner.
The data reveals that there are 2 distinct art units involved in these cases. This means that the Chemistry & Materials filings are spread across 2 different technical examination groups. For a practitioner, this distribution across 2 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners suggests that the portfolio is subject to a variety of technical perspectives and administrative styles within the patent office.
SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This 1 pending action for the busiest examiner is a portion of the 3 total pending office actions for the company. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 actions, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload. The prosecution strategy must therefore account for the specific requirements of 2 different art units and their respective examiners.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1 | 55.3% | +25.6% |
| VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 1 | 64.4% | +13.8% |
| FELTON, MICHAEL J | 1 | 59.6% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17424016 | AN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCT COMPRISING A PH ADJUSTING AGENT | FELTON, MICHAEL J | 58d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17424016 | AN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCT COMPRISING A PH ADJUSTING AGENT | FELTON, MICHAEL J | 58d overdue |
| 18255876 | A POUCHED PRODUCT FOR ORAL USE | VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 27d |
| 18550150 | A FLAVOURED ORAL POUCHED NICOTINE PRODUCT COMPRISING AN ACID | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 2 |
| 1755 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550150 | A FLAVOURED ORAL POUCHED NICOTINE PRODUCT COMPRISING AN ACID | SZUMIGALSKI, NICOLE ASHLEY | 1755 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18255876 | A POUCHED PRODUCT FOR ORAL USE | VAKILI, DANIEL EDWARD | 1747 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 17424016 | AN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCT COMPRISING A PH ADJUSTING AGENT | FELTON, MICHAEL J | 1747 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Jul 19, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSwedish Match North Europe AB has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Nicole Ashley Szumigalski has the most, with 1 of Swedish Match North Europe AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
