Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Avient Protective Materials B.V. manages 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This creates a decentralized prosecution profile where every pending action is handled by a different examiner in a different unit. The use of 3 distinct art units for 3 pending office actions suggests that the company's chemistry filings are technically diverse.
EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 total actions, each examiner carries an equal share of the workload. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 3 separate prosecution tracks, as the 3 distinct art units will likely have different internal policies. This lack of concentration among the 3 pending office actions means that the company's success is distributed across multiple points of contact. This structure requires a tailored approach for each of the 3 pending office actions to satisfy the specific requirements of the different examiners and units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1 | 48.3% | +41.6% |
| FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 1 | 78.5% | +13.0% |
| SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | 1 | 70.5% | +9.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542077 | COMPOSITE LENGTHY BODY | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 84d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542077 | COMPOSITE LENGTHY BODY | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 84d overdue |
| 18565824 | HYBRID BALLISTIC-RESISTANT MOLDED ARTICLE | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18542077 | COMPOSITE LENGTHY BODY | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1789 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 84d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18565824 | HYBRID BALLISTIC-RESISTANT MOLDED ARTICLE | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 1781 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18382226 | FLEXIBLE COMPOSITE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | 1759 | DP | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAvient Protective Materials B.V. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Larissa Rowe Emrich has the most, with 1 of Avient Protective Materials B.V.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
