Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Avient Protective Materials B.V. operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 4 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners. This indicates that each examiner is currently responsible for 1 matter. This distribution shows 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 3 distinct art units. EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE is the busiest examiner, though she only accounts for 1 pending office action. This distribution across 3 art units and 4 examiners suggests a diverse set of technical challenges within the Chemistry & Materials sector. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy must be adaptable to the different standards of 3 separate art units. The fact that 4 examiners are involved for 4 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. 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 (25%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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% | +41.8% |
| FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 1 | 78.4% | +13.2% |
| SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R | 1 | 70.6% | +8.9% |
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 3 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 | — |
| 16629729 | HOMOGENEOUS FILLED YARN | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 2 |
| 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 |
| 16629729 | HOMOGENEOUS FILLED YARN | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2020 |
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