Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
WestRock Shared Services, LLC has 5 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The docket spans 5 examiners and 4 art units, showing distinct examiner assignments with some technical-group overlap.
ATTEL, NINA KAY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can coordinate related subject matter within shared art units while managing each examiner’s record independently.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATTEL, NINA KAY | 1 | 41.5% | +28.0% |
| ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 1 | 62.1% | +40.5% |
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.2% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 52.0% | +15.5% |
| TAWFIK, SAMEH | 1 | 63.1% | +31.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686189 | PRODUCT CONTAINERS, PACKAGING SYSTEMS, PACKAGING METHODS, AND BLANKS AND METHODS FOR MAKING PRODUCT CONTAINERS | ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 62d |
| 19060955 | CORRUGATED PAPER CONTAINER | ATTEL, NINA KAY | — |
| 18013672 | PACKAGING SYSTEMS FOR MULTIPLE POTTED PLANTS AND ASSOCIATED BLANKS AND PACKAGING METHODS | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165899 | METHOD OF FORMING CONTAINERS HAVING A BOTTOM WALL WITH AN OPENING, SAME CONTAINERS, AND BLANKS FOR FORMING SAME | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1d overdue |
| 17589645 | MACHINE AND METHODS FOR FORMING, ERECTING, AND LOADING A POUCH WITH A PRODUCT | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 14d |
| 18686189 | PRODUCT CONTAINERS, PACKAGING SYSTEMS, PACKAGING METHODS, AND BLANKS AND METHODS FOR MAKING PRODUCT CONTAINERS | ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 62d |
| 19060955 | CORRUGATED PAPER CONTAINER | ATTEL, NINA KAY | — |
| 18013672 | PACKAGING SYSTEMS FOR MULTIPLE POTTED PLANTS AND ASSOCIATED BLANKS AND PACKAGING METHODS | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 2 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19060955 | CORRUGATED PAPER CONTAINER | ATTEL, NINA KAY | 3734 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18686189 | PRODUCT CONTAINERS, PACKAGING SYSTEMS, PACKAGING METHODS, AND BLANKS AND METHODS FOR MAKING PRODUCT CONTAINERS | ISLAM, SANJIDUL | 3736 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18165899 | METHOD OF FORMING CONTAINERS HAVING A BOTTOM WALL WITH AN OPENING, SAME CONTAINERS, AND BLANKS FOR FORMING SAME | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §102 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 18013672 | PACKAGING SYSTEMS FOR MULTIPLE POTTED PLANTS AND ASSOCIATED BLANKS AND PACKAGING METHODS | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 17589645 | MACHINE AND METHODS FOR FORMING, ERECTING, AND LOADING A POUCH WITH A PRODUCT | TAWFIK, SAMEH | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jan 31, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialWestRock Shared Services, LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Nina Kay Attel has the most, with 1 of WestRock Shared Services, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
