Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Allnex Belgium S A currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are split between 2 distinct examiners, each handling a separate case. Furthermore, the workload is divided across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's current patent applications cover different technical sub-sectors within the broader chemical field. The presence of 2 distinct art units requires the legal team to monitor two different sets of administrative standards.
WHITELEY, JESSICA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The other pending action is managed by the second of the 2 distinct examiners. This 1 to 1 ratio between the 2 distinct examiners and the 2 pending office actions means that the company must maintain two independent prosecution tracks. Practitioners should analyze the specific tendencies of both examiners, as the 2 pending office actions are subject to different individual review processes. This distribution ensures that each of the 2 pending office actions receives attention from a different examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1 | 88.6% | +7.0% |
| MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1 | 58.5% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881861 | RADIATION CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR COMPOSITE MATERIAL | WHITELEY, JESSICA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18008277 | POLYMERIC AMINO (METH)ACRYLATE | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881861 | RADIATION CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR COMPOSITE MATERIAL | WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1712 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18008277 | POLYMERIC AMINO (METH)ACRYLATE | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1767 | §112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
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