Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tekni-Plex Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, providing different perspectives on the pending applications. This split in examiner assignment can be beneficial for a company to avoid being subject to the specific practices of a single individual at the patent office. The variety of examiners involved may lead to different prosecution timelines and outcomes for the pending applications.
The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units. Kyle Harrison Shipman is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This indicates that each pending action is being handled in a separate art unit by a different examiner. This distribution suggests that the company's current patent filings cover different technical aspects within the chemistry and materials field, requiring a multi-faceted prosecution approach. Each application will likely face unique technical challenges based on its assignment to 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 1 | 65.9% | +23.3% |
| SHIPMAN, KYLE HARRISON | 1 | — | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17897471 | Single-Use Bioprocessing Bag for Growing Cell Media, and Multilayer Film | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 10d overdue |
| 19448481 | Article and Method for Forming an Integrated Liner Seal, Dispensing Aperture and Spout | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17897471 | Single-Use Bioprocessing Bag for Growing Cell Media, and Multilayer Film | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 10d overdue |
| 19448481 | Article and Method for Forming an Integrated Liner Seal, Dispensing Aperture and Spout | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19448481 | Article and Method for Forming an Integrated Liner Seal, Dispensing Aperture and Spout | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 3735 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2026 |
| 18769502 | Dip Tube for Liquid Spray Pump Dispensing Apparatus and Method of Manufacture | SHIPMAN, KYLE HARRISON | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 17897471 | Single-Use Bioprocessing Bag for Growing Cell Media, and Multilayer Film | MIGGINS, MICHAEL C | 1782 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
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