Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
UPM RAFLATAC OY has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units, creating some concentration by examiner and technical setting.
DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can review those matters together for consistent positions, while maintaining separate strategies for the matters assigned elsewhere.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 2 | 45.2% | -14.5% |
| DESAI, ANISH P | 1 | 45.5% | +6.1% |
| WALSHON, SCOTT R | 1 | 51.6% | +20.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18112007 | LINERLESS LABEL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING A LABEL | WALSHON, SCOTT R | 71d overdue |
| 18864459 | LINERLESS LABEL | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18112007 | LINERLESS LABEL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING A LABEL | WALSHON, SCOTT R | 71d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 3 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19089531 | LINERLESS LABEL | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1788 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 18864459 | LINERLESS LABEL | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1788 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18399979 | WASH-OFF LABEL | DESAI, ANISH P | 1788 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18112007 | LINERLESS LABEL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING A LABEL | WALSHON, SCOTT R | 1759 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialUPM RAFLATAC OY has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Frank D Ducheneaux has the most, with 2 of UPM RAFLATAC OY's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
