Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vmi Holland B.V. currently manages 11 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating a focused technical approach. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, which suggests that several individuals are reviewing the company's applications simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP, who is responsible for 5 busiest examiner pending actions. This represents a concentration of the workload, as 5 of the 11 pending office actions are assigned to this examiner. The other actions are shared among the remaining distinct examiners, meaning most other examiners are handling their assigned cases.
Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP, given their influence over the current portfolio. The concentration within 3 distinct art units further suggests that while the company has 6 distinct examiners, the technical subject matter remains relatively consistent across the pending office actions.
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 | 1 (9%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (73%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 5 | 63.5% | +45.5% |
| BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 2 | 54.4% | +37.6% |
| HUNTSINGER, PETER K | 1 | 29.0% | +17.6% |
| MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | 1 | 72.7% | +30.3% |
| ACKUN, JACOB K | 1 | 56.9% | +3.5% |
| MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 1 | 50.7% | +42.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871430 | TRANSFER RING, TIRE BUILDING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ONE OR MORE TIRE COMPONENTS | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 17d overdue |
| 18110227 | Apparatus and method for converting a sheet into a continuous strip | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 7d |
| 19129196 | Method, tire manufacturing line and computer program product for manufacturing a continuous strip | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 47d |
| 18912628 | SHEET FOR USE IN PILL PACKAGES, AND POUCH FORMED FROM A SHEET | ACKUN, JACOB K | 53d |
| 18865173 | TIRE BUILDING MACHINE FOR PRODUCING TIRE COMPONENTS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HUMAN ACCESS TO SAID TIRE BUILDING MACHINE | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | — |
| 18858762 | Bar-code printing device, method and computer program product for printing bar-codes | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | — |
| 18858217 | Method and cord organizer for organizing cords between a tire building creel and an extruder | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | — |
| 18845069 | CUTTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CUTTING A TIRE COMPONENT | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871430 | TRANSFER RING, TIRE BUILDING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ONE OR MORE TIRE COMPONENTS | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 17d overdue |
| 18110227 | Apparatus and method for converting a sheet into a continuous strip | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 7d |
| 19129196 | Method, tire manufacturing line and computer program product for manufacturing a continuous strip | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 47d |
| 18865173 | TIRE BUILDING MACHINE FOR PRODUCING TIRE COMPONENTS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HUMAN ACCESS TO SAID TIRE BUILDING MACHINE | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | — |
| 18858762 | Bar-code printing device, method and computer program product for printing bar-codes | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | — |
| 18858774 | Method, pharmacy, dispensing device, medication dispensing container and computer program product for dispensing discrete medicaments | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | — |
| 18858217 | Method and cord organizer for organizing cords between a tire building creel and an extruder | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | — |
| 18912292 | BELT AND TREAD DRUM, ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BELT AND TREAD PACKAGE | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1749 | 7 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19129196 | Method, tire manufacturing line and computer program product for manufacturing a continuous strip | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 1749 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 47d | Pending | May 12, 2025 |
| 18871430 | TRANSFER RING, TIRE BUILDING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ONE OR MORE TIRE COMPONENTS | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 1749 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18865173 | TIRE BUILDING MACHINE FOR PRODUCING TIRE COMPONENTS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HUMAN ACCESS TO SAID TIRE BUILDING MACHINE | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 1749 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18858762 | Bar-code printing device, method and computer program product for printing bar-codes | HUNTSINGER, PETER K | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18858774 | Method, pharmacy, dispensing device, medication dispensing container and computer program product for dispensing discrete medicaments | MARU, TEMESGEN MALLEDE | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18858217 | Method and cord organizer for organizing cords between a tire building creel and an extruder | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 1749 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18912628 | SHEET FOR USE IN PILL PACKAGES, AND POUCH FORMED FROM A SHEET | ACKUN, JACOB K | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18912292 | BELT AND TREAD DRUM, ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BELT AND TREAD PACKAGE | BOOTH, ALEXANDER D | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18845069 | CUTTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CUTTING A TIRE COMPONENT | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 1749 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18844252 | SERVICER, ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING A TIRE COMPONENT TO A TIRE BUILDING DRUM | PAQUETTE, SEDEF ESRA AYALP | 1749 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18110227 | Apparatus and method for converting a sheet into a continuous strip | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Feb 15, 2023 |
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