Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Arkema Inc.

17 pending office actions • 12 art units • 15 examiners • 1 of 17 (6%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

14
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (14)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
13
Medium (76%)
1
Easy (6%)
3
Unknown (18%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (76%)
§112 only1 (6%)
No statute on record3 (18%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

16
Life Sciences
94% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DIAZ, MATTHEW R 2 53.1% +45.0%
LIU, ZHEN 2 42.0% +45.8%
KOLB, KATARZYNA I 1 44.1% +17.3%
WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE 1 50.0% +57.1%
PEEBLES, KATHERINE 1 36.3% +49.7%
TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE 1 59.8% +34.8%
WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA 1 73.1% +16.8%
FANG, SHANE 1 76.2% +18.9%
RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI 1 54.5% +53.7%
OROZCO, MARIA F 1 60.0% -16.7%

Interview Candidates (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17914379 ORGANIC PEROXIDE FORMULATIONS FOR MODIFICATION OF BIO-BASED AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS LIU, ZHEN 117d overdue
18103541 PREVENTION OF DISEASES IN HONEYBEES AND REDUCTION OF PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN BEESWAX RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI 91d overdue
16969578 ACCELERATOR SOLUTIONS USEFUL FOR RESIN CURING DIAZ, MATTHEW R 79d overdue
18025195 METHOD AND EXTRUDER FOR PREPARING A HIGH QUALITY BLOCK OF IMMOBILIZED ACTIVE MEDIA TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE 73d overdue
18282241 METHOD FOR MONITORING A TUBE SHEET OF A HEAT EXCHANGER WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE 60d overdue
18022766 COATING COMPOSITION WITH IMPROVED BLOCK AND HUMIDITY RESISTANCE, DIRECT TO METAL ADHERENCE AND LOW VOC CONTENT WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA 51d overdue
17914377 NON-POLYMERIC COUPLING AGENT FORMULATIONS FOR WOOD POLYMER COMPOSITES LIU, ZHEN 49d overdue
18290323 STORAGE STABLE PIGMENTED COATING COMPOSITION KOLB, KATARZYNA I 35d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1767 4
1763 2
1761 2
2677 1
1617 1
1744 1
1765 1
1766 1
1627 1
1729 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18290323 STORAGE STABLE PIGMENTED COATING COMPOSITION KOLB, KATARZYNA I 1767 Other Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending Nov 13, 2023
18282241 METHOD FOR MONITORING A TUBE SHEET OF A HEAT EXCHANGER WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE 2677 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18220852 ENCAPSULATION OF PEROXIDES FOR SKIN APPLICATIONS PEEBLES, KATHERINE 1617 Other Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023
18025195 METHOD AND EXTRUDER FOR PREPARING A HIGH QUALITY BLOCK OF IMMOBILIZED ACTIVE MEDIA TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE 1744 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Mar 08, 2023
18022766 COATING COMPOSITION WITH IMPROVED BLOCK AND HUMIDITY RESISTANCE, DIRECT TO METAL ADHERENCE AND LOW VOC CONTENT WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2023
18019494 PRODUCTION OF THIOPOLYMERS BY REACTIVE EXTRUSION FANG, SHANE 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 03, 2023
18103541 PREVENTION OF DISEASES IN HONEYBEES AND REDUCTION OF PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN BEESWAX RAMACHANDRAN, UMAMAHESWARI 1627 §112 Non-Final OA 91d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
17926155 ELECTRODE BINDER COMPOSITION FOR LITHIUM ION ELECTRICAL STORAGE DEVICES OROZCO, MARIA F 1729 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Nov 18, 2022
17922997 HEAT TRANSFER COMPOSITIONS OF HYDROFLUOROCARBONS AHVAZI, BIJAN 1763 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2022
17922993 AZEOTROPE AND AZEOTROPE-LIKE COMPOSITIONS OF 1-CHLORO-1,2 DIFLUOROETHYLENE AND 2,3,3,3-TETRAFLUOROPROP-1-ENE DIAZ, MATTHEW R 1761 Other Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2022
17918586 REMOVAL OF RESIDUAL MERCAPTANS FROM POLYMER COMPOSITIONS MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA 1767 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Oct 13, 2022
17914377 NON-POLYMERIC COUPLING AGENT FORMULATIONS FOR WOOD POLYMER COMPOSITES LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2022
17914379 ORGANIC PEROXIDE FORMULATIONS FOR MODIFICATION OF BIO-BASED AND BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2022
17795584 PVDF EXTRUSION AGENT CONTAINING INTERFACIAL AGENT HALL, DEVE V. 1763 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2022
17765460 FOAMED FILLER ROD IN OPTICAL FIBER CABLES LAN, YAN 1782 §103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022
17617068 RETICULATED COMPOSITE MATERIAL GOLDEN, CHINESSA T 1788 §103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2021
16969578 ACCELERATOR SOLUTIONS USEFUL FOR RESIN CURING DIAZ, MATTHEW R 1761 §103 Final Rejection 79d overdue AI Ready Aug 13, 2020

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