Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Windham Packaging LLC is currently overseeing 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This activity is localized to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which points to a narrow and specific area of technological interest for the company's current filings. Such a focused portfolio simplifies the management of deadlines and examiner communications. The presence of 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company is focusing its resources on a single chemical or packaging innovation.
KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since this 1 action is the only one pending, the company's success in the near term is tied to this single examiner's evaluation. The presence of 1 distinct art unit means the company is only dealing with one set of examination guidelines, which may help in efficiently addressing the 1 pending office action. This centralized strategy allows the company to focus all its efforts on resolving the 1 pending office action with the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1 | 45.9% | +47.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18117807 | CONTROLLED MOISTURE TRANSPORT PACKAGING FOR FRESH PRODUCE | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18117807 | CONTROLLED MOISTURE TRANSPORT PACKAGING FOR FRESH PRODUCE | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18117807 | CONTROLLED MOISTURE TRANSPORT PACKAGING FOR FRESH PRODUCE | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1782 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
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