Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. has 16 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket spans 15 examiners and 12 art units, showing broad examiner coverage with recurring assignments across technical units.
DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. Counsel can coordinate those matters while using art-unit analysis and centralized controls for the remainder of the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.8% |
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.2% |
| LEE, JONATHAN S | 1 | 84.6% | +9.6% |
| SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 1 | 82.1% | +15.4% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.6% | +28.0% |
| BOECKMANN, JASON J | 1 | 49.0% | +28.7% |
| TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1 | 28.7% | +26.5% |
| NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 1 | 74.0% | +36.7% |
| OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 1 | 62.1% | +9.5% |
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 61.3% | +39.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18258665 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRAINING AND FORMING CURD | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 15d |
| 17628511 | PLANT AND METHOD FOR CONCENTRATING A SUBSTANCE IN A MILK PRODUCT | THAKUR, VIREN A | 27d |
| 19323633 | CLOSURE ASSEMBLY FOR A CONTAINER AND CONTAINER HAVING A CLOSURE ASSEMBLY | SMALLEY, JAMES N | — |
| 19100330 | PACKAGING BLANK FOR FORMING A PACKAGE AND PACKAGE FORMED FROM A PACKAGING BLANK | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18865840 | EVALUATING THE SEALING QUALITY OF A SEALING STRIP SEALED TO A PACKAGING WEB IN A PACKAGING MACHINE | LEE, JONATHAN S | — |
| 18836125 | A DRINKING STRAW, A DEVICE FOR FORMING A DRINKING STRAW, A METHOD FOR FORMING A DRINKING STRAW AND A LIQUID FOOD PACKAGE | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | — |
| 18566163 | DRINKING STRAW AND PACKAGE | BOECKMANN, JASON J | — |
| 18549370 | BATCH PRODUCTION OF PLANT MILK | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18251939 | AN INDUCTION HEATING SEALING DEVICE | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 22d overdue |
| 18258665 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRAINING AND FORMING CURD | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 15d |
| 19100330 | PACKAGING BLANK FOR FORMING A PACKAGE AND PACKAGE FORMED FROM A PACKAGING BLANK | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18836125 | A DRINKING STRAW, A DEVICE FOR FORMING A DRINKING STRAW, A METHOD FOR FORMING A DRINKING STRAW AND A LIQUID FOOD PACKAGE | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | — |
| 18710076 | BARRIER-COATED CELLULOSE-BASED SUBSTRATE FOR LAMINATED PACKAGING MATERIAL | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | — |
| 18566163 | DRINKING STRAW AND PACKAGE | BOECKMANN, JASON J | — |
| 18549370 | BATCH PRODUCTION OF PLANT MILK | TRAN, LIEN THUY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 2 |
| 3752 | 2 |
| 3761 | 2 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19323633 | CLOSURE ASSEMBLY FOR A CONTAINER AND CONTAINER HAVING A CLOSURE ASSEMBLY | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2025 |
| 19100330 | PACKAGING BLANK FOR FORMING A PACKAGE AND PACKAGE FORMED FROM A PACKAGING BLANK | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18865840 | EVALUATING THE SEALING QUALITY OF A SEALING STRIP SEALED TO A PACKAGING WEB IN A PACKAGING MACHINE | LEE, JONATHAN S | 2677 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18836125 | A DRINKING STRAW, A DEVICE FOR FORMING A DRINKING STRAW, A METHOD FOR FORMING A DRINKING STRAW AND A LIQUID FOOD PACKAGE | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18710076 | BARRIER-COATED CELLULOSE-BASED SUBSTRATE FOR LAMINATED PACKAGING MATERIAL | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1717 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18566163 | DRINKING STRAW AND PACKAGE | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 3752 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18549370 | BATCH PRODUCTION OF PLANT MILK | TRAN, LIEN THUY | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18258665 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRAINING AND FORMING CURD | NGUYEN, PHUONG T | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18255668 | LEVEL READER DEVICE, LEVEL READER SYSTEM AND PACKAGE PRODUCING MACHINE COMPRISING THE LEVEL READER SYSTEM | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18251939 | AN INDUCTION HEATING SEALING DEVICE | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 17628511 | PLANT AND METHOD FOR CONCENTRATING A SUBSTANCE IN A MILK PRODUCT | THAKUR, VIREN A | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jan 19, 2022 |
| 17624156 | PACKAGING MATERIAL AND A MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREOF | BATTISTI, DEREK J | 3734 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialTetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 12 examiners.
James N Smalley has the most, with 1 of Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
