Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC maintains a portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 6 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners. This indicates a lack of examiner concentration in the current workload, which can lead to varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio.
The company's applications are spread across 5 distinct art units, showing technical breadth within the chemistry sector. NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS is the busiest examiner, though he only accounts for 1 pending office action. This distribution across 5 art units and 6 examiners suggests a diverse set of technical challenges for the 6 total pending actions. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be adaptable to the different standards and tendencies of 5 separate art units. The fact that 6 examiners are involved for 6 actions shows that the company is engaging with a wide range of expertise at the patent office.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS | 1 | 63.7% | -5.1% |
| SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | 1 | 70.6% | +8.9% |
| EASHOO, MARK | 1 | 37.3% | +35.9% |
| KHAN, AMINA S | 1 | 47.5% | +43.0% |
| PATEL, RONAK C | 1 | 51.2% | +56.4% |
| USELDING, JOHN E | 1 | 53.7% | +17.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541228 | POLYAMIDE COMPOSITIONS WITH DUAL COPPER STABILIZERS | NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS | — |
| 18359239 | BICOMPONENT FABRICS WITH SHORT FIBERS | SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | — |
| 18337726 | ASPHALT ADDITIVES WITH MULTIPLE AMINES | EASHOO, MARK | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18055451 | ANTIMICROBIAL/ANTIVIRAL POLYAMIDE FILM COMPOSITIONS | PATEL, RONAK C | 119d overdue |
| 18337726 | ASPHALT ADDITIVES WITH MULTIPLE AMINES | EASHOO, MARK | — |
| 18315160 | ALKALI-TREATED FABRICS/FIBERS/STAPLES WITH ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES | KHAN, AMINA S | — |
| 17984681 | DRY AND COLD PERFORMANCE OF POLYAMIDES VIA INCORPORATION OF POLYETHER DIAMINES | USELDING, JOHN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18541228 | POLYAMIDE COMPOSITIONS WITH DUAL COPPER STABILIZERS | NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18359239 | BICOMPONENT FABRICS WITH SHORT FIBERS | SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18337726 | ASPHALT ADDITIVES WITH MULTIPLE AMINES | EASHOO, MARK | 1767 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18315160 | ALKALI-TREATED FABRICS/FIBERS/STAPLES WITH ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES | KHAN, AMINA S | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2023 |
| 18055451 | ANTIMICROBIAL/ANTIVIRAL POLYAMIDE FILM COMPOSITIONS | PATEL, RONAK C | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | 119d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
| 17984681 | DRY AND COLD PERFORMANCE OF POLYAMIDES VIA INCORPORATION OF POLYETHER DIAMINES | USELDING, JOHN E | 1763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
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