Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
UPM RAFLATAC OY is managing 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These cases are spread across 3 distinct art units and involve 4 distinct examiners. The distribution of 6 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's technical filings are somewhat diversified within the chemistry sector. With 4 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously. This variety in assignments suggests that the company's prosecution outcomes are not dependent on a single individual's review.
DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 2 pending office actions. This leaves the remaining 4 pending office actions to be distributed among the other 3 distinct examiners. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company faces a variety of technical expertise and examination styles. Practitioners should be prepared to adapt their prosecution strategies to the specific nuances of these 3 distinct art units and the 4 distinct examiners currently reviewing the company's applications. This profile reflects a moderately distributed workload across several technical divisions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 | 45.0% | -13.9% |
| WALSHON, SCOTT R | 2 | 51.3% | +20.6% |
| DESAI, ANISH P | 1 | 45.3% | +6.9% |
| DICUS, TAMRA | 1 | 30.5% | +21.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18112007 | LINERLESS LABEL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING A LABEL | WALSHON, SCOTT R | 71d overdue |
| 18387108 | RELEASE LINER AND A LABEL LAMINATE | WALSHON, SCOTT R | 51d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18112007 | LINERLESS LABEL AND METHOD FOR PREPARING A LABEL | WALSHON, SCOTT R | 71d overdue |
| 18387108 | RELEASE LINER AND A LABEL LAMINATE | WALSHON, SCOTT R | 51d overdue |
| 18266648 | Acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition for food packaging label application | DICUS, TAMRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 3 |
| 1759 | 2 |
| 1787 | 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 |
| 18387108 | RELEASE LINER AND A LABEL LAMINATE | WALSHON, SCOTT R | 1759 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18266648 | Acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive composition for food packaging label application | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 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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