Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
ALBEMARLE Corporation manages a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry and Materials technology area. There are currently 9 pending office actions across the portfolio, which are being handled by 9 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that each pending matter is assigned to a different individual, requiring the company to navigate multiple examination perspectives simultaneously.
The portfolio's activity is spread across 6 distinct art units. This variety suggests a broad technical scope within the chemistry field, as the 9 pending office actions are not confined to a single administrative group. The busiest examiner, RUTISER, CLAIRE A, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This confirms that the workload is evenly dispersed, as no single examiner holds more than 1 of the total pending actions.
Practitioners should prepare for a complex prosecution environment due to the involvement of 6 distinct art units. With 9 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage separate timelines and sets of requirements. The even distribution of the workload means that the outcome of any single action will not necessarily predict the results of the others.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 4 (44%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 1 | 41.8% | +21.9% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 78.2% | +22.2% |
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 45.8% | +32.9% |
| STULII, VERA | 1 | 32.8% | +24.8% |
| CALDERON, DAVID ANDREW | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.2% | +15.9% |
| SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1 | 76.9% | -1.5% |
| FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 73.2% | +25.3% |
| CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1 | 66.7% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019311 | ADDITIVES FOR FLAME RETARDED POLYOLEFINS | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 21d |
| 18292383 | PROCESS FOR PURIFYING HYDROGEN HALIDE SOLUTIONS CONTAINING ORGANIC IMPURITIES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| 18404470 | Flame Retarded Polyurethane Foam | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | — |
| 18261303 | FCC CATALYST ADDITIVE WITH PSEUDO SOLID STATE CRYSTALLIZED ZEOLITE | CALDERON, DAVID ANDREW | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019311 | ADDITIVES FOR FLAME RETARDED POLYOLEFINS | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 21d |
| 18693710 | PRE-LITHIATION OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ANODES | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18292383 | PROCESS FOR PURIFYING HYDROGEN HALIDE SOLUTIONS CONTAINING ORGANIC IMPURITIES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| 18404470 | Flame Retarded Polyurethane Foam | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | — |
| 18522603 | Microbiocidal Control in The Processing of Poultry | STULII, VERA | — |
| 17777357 | Flame Retardants For Battery Electrolytes | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
| 17777350 | Flame Retardants For Lithium Batteries | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693710 | PRE-LITHIATION OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ANODES | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18292383 | PROCESS FOR PURIFYING HYDROGEN HALIDE SOLUTIONS CONTAINING ORGANIC IMPURITIES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18404470 | Flame Retarded Polyurethane Foam | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18522603 | Microbiocidal Control in The Processing of Poultry | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18261303 | FCC CATALYST ADDITIVE WITH PSEUDO SOLID STATE CRYSTALLIZED ZEOLITE | CALDERON, DAVID ANDREW | 1742 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 18019311 | ADDITIVES FOR FLAME RETARDED POLYOLEFINS | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1767 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 18058961 | METHOD OF REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL METHYLMERCURY AND LIMITING ITS UPTAKE INTO PLANTS AND ORGANISMS | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1736 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17777357 | Flame Retardants For Battery Electrolytes | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1728 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2022 |
| 17777350 | Flame Retardants For Lithium Batteries | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1721 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2022 |
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