Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Windmöller & Hölscher Kg currently manages 9 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 7 distinct art units, reflecting a portfolio with technical breadth that touches on many different chemical classifications. The prosecution involves 8 distinct examiners, which suggests that the company must navigate a range of individual examiner styles and interpretations to secure its patent rights.
LEYSON, JOSEPH S is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 2 pending office actions. While he oversees more matters than any other individual, the remaining actions are distributed among the other examiners. With 9 pending office actions in total, the company faces a diverse prosecution landscape that requires coordinating responses across 7 distinct art units. This number of art units relative to the total actions indicates that almost every pending application faces a unique set of technical challenges.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 5 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 2 | 66.3% | +35.9% |
| ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 1 | 62.6% | +22.0% |
| DUNN, DARRIN D | 1 | 75.3% | +24.2% |
| TAN, ALVIN H | 1 | 57.0% | +19.0% |
| WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1 | 62.1% | +29.6% |
| BATTISTI, DEREK J | 1 | 51.4% | +36.0% |
| HELVEY, PETER N. | 1 | 54.6% | +19.1% |
| HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 1 | 42.7% | +19.2% |
| MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1 | 46.2% | +43.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560537 | Method for Producing Film from a Total Amount of Raw Materials Using a Film Extrusion Machine, and Computer Program Product for Carrying Out the Method | DUNN, DARRIN D | 16d overdue |
| 18756320 | System for Producing a Blown Film | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 33d |
| 18298872 | METHOD FOR CHANGING THE MATERIAL IN AN EXTRUSION DEVICE | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 34d |
| 18254281 | BAG, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A BAG | HELVEY, PETER N. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560537 | Method for Producing Film from a Total Amount of Raw Materials Using a Film Extrusion Machine, and Computer Program Product for Carrying Out the Method | DUNN, DARRIN D | 16d overdue |
| 17912764 | Stretching Device and Method for Stretching a Plastic Film in the Transport Direction Thereof | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 14d |
| 18710784 | Stretching Device and Method for Monoaxial Stretching of a Film Web in the Transport Direction Thereof | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 29d |
| 18756320 | System for Producing a Blown Film | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 33d |
| 18298872 | METHOD FOR CHANGING THE MATERIAL IN AN EXTRUSION DEVICE | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 34d |
| 18560551 | Method for Producing Film from a Total Quantity of Raw Materials Using a Film Extrusion Machine, and Computer Program Product for Carrying Out the Method | TAN, ALVIN H | — |
| 18560553 | Method for Producing a Plastic Film from a Total Quantity of Raw Materials in a Film Extrusion Machine, and Computer Program Product for Carrying Out the Method | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | — |
| 18550551 | POUCH-TYPE BAG MADE OF PAPER AS WELL AS METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A POUCH-TYPE BAG MADE OF PAPER | BATTISTI, DEREK J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 2 |
| 3734 | 2 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1754 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18756320 | System for Producing a Blown Film | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 1744 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18710784 | Stretching Device and Method for Monoaxial Stretching of a Film Web in the Transport Direction Thereof | ROBITAILLE, JOHN P | 1743 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18560537 | Method for Producing Film from a Total Amount of Raw Materials Using a Film Extrusion Machine, and Computer Program Product for Carrying Out the Method | DUNN, DARRIN D | 2117 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18560551 | Method for Producing Film from a Total Quantity of Raw Materials Using a Film Extrusion Machine, and Computer Program Product for Carrying Out the Method | TAN, ALVIN H | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18560553 | Method for Producing a Plastic Film from a Total Quantity of Raw Materials in a Film Extrusion Machine, and Computer Program Product for Carrying Out the Method | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1742 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18550551 | POUCH-TYPE BAG MADE OF PAPER AS WELL AS METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A POUCH-TYPE BAG MADE OF PAPER | BATTISTI, DEREK J | 3734 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18254281 | BAG, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A BAG | HELVEY, PETER N. | 3734 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18298872 | METHOD FOR CHANGING THE MATERIAL IN AN EXTRUSION DEVICE | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 1744 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
| 17912764 | Stretching Device and Method for Stretching a Plastic Film in the Transport Direction Thereof | HEMINGWAY, TIMOTHY G | 1754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 19, 2022 |
| 17291641 | SWITCHING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING A FLAT FILM MACHINE FROM AN INPUT PRODUCT TO A SUBSEQUENT PRODUCT | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2021 |
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