Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 4 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Westrock Packaging Systems LLC has 17 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio spans 14 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing substantial examiner dispersion within a compact set of technical groups. This structure supports coordinated art-unit analysis while retaining matter-specific response planning.
GEHMAN, BRYON P is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending actions. That assignment creates a meaningful examiner-specific workstream, but the broader distribution indicates that it should be integrated into a wider portfolio process rather than treated as the sole prosecution priority.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 15 (88%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3 | 73.7% | +30.6% |
| COLLINS, RAVEN | 3 | 62.6% | +10.2% |
| CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 1 | 62.4% | +39.1% |
| IMAM, TANZIM | 1 | 71.2% | +27.2% |
| HELVEY, PETER N. | 1 | 54.7% | +19.3% |
| KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 1 | 49.4% | +11.7% |
| TECCO, ANDREW M | 1 | 65.5% | +24.6% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.5% |
| MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 1 | 52.7% | +27.6% |
| PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 1 | 46.7% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17787329 | PACKAGE, ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | COLLINS, RAVEN | 110d overdue |
| 18827918 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3d overdue |
| 18033125 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | PAL, PRINCE | 21d |
| 18282370 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 23d |
| 19110191 | PACKAGE, CARRIER COMPONENTS AND BLANKS THEREFOR | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 34d |
| 19335601 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | GEHMAN, BRYON P | — |
| 19231134 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | — |
| 19109974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES IN A CARTON | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17787329 | PACKAGE, ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | COLLINS, RAVEN | 110d overdue |
| 18827918 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3d overdue |
| 18282370 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 23d |
| 19110191 | PACKAGE, CARRIER COMPONENTS AND BLANKS THEREFOR | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 34d |
| 19335601 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | GEHMAN, BRYON P | — |
| 19231134 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | — |
| 19109974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES IN A CARTON | IMAM, TANZIM | — |
| 19104335 | ARTICLE RETENTION DEVICE, ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | GEHMAN, BRYON P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 6 |
| 3736 | 4 |
| 3731 | 4 |
| 3734 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19335601 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 19231134 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | CHEUNG, CHUN HOI | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19110191 | PACKAGE, CARRIER COMPONENTS AND BLANKS THEREFOR | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19109974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES IN A CARTON | IMAM, TANZIM | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19104335 | ARTICLE RETENTION DEVICE, ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 18919832 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | HELVEY, PETER N. | 3734 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18827918 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3735 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18836439 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK | COLLINS, RAVEN | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18711584 | PACKAGING SYSTEM AND APPARATUS | TECCO, ANDREW M | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2024 |
| 18577962 | METHODS AND MACHINE FOR FORMING CONTAINERS HAVING TOP FLANGE WITH GLUED CORNERS | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18571480 | END CLOSURE, ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 3734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18282370 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18033125 | ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | PAL, PRINCE | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 17916522 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURING PRODUCT ORIENTATION IN A PACKAGE | PATHAK, PRAACHI M. | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 17912517 | PACKAGE, ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | COLLINS, RAVEN | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2022 |
| 17851861 | FOLDABLE DISPLAY CARTON WITH AT LEAST ONE DIVIDER | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2022 |
| 17787329 | PACKAGE, ARTICLE CARRIER AND BLANK THEREFOR | COLLINS, RAVEN | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 110d overdue | Pending | Jun 19, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialWestrock Packaging Systems LLC has 17 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 13 examiners.
Bryon P Gehman has the most, with 3 of Westrock Packaging Systems LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
