Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 2 of 7 (29%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
BEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners across 5 art units, showing broad distribution with some repeated examination context.
SAWYER, JENNIFER C is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. Those matters may support coordinated analysis of chemical claim scope and recurring prior-art issues, while the remaining actions require examiner- and art-unit-specific preparation.
The spread of assignments makes centralized docket review important. Counsel should align technical terminology and disclosure positions across the portfolio, but preserve response strategies that reflect each examination record.
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 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAWYER, JENNIFER C | 2 | 68.4% | -8.2% |
| RIOJA, MELISSA A | 1 | 49.3% | +54.1% |
| LE, HOA T | 1 | 72.7% | +11.9% |
| FEELY, MICHAEL J | 1 | 75.1% | +41.9% |
| BROOKS, KREGG T | 1 | 57.1% | +1.5% |
| LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 73.0% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18705689 | POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF, AND POLYOLEFIN MICROPOROUS BREATHABLE FILM PREPARED THEREFROM | RIOJA, MELISSA A | — |
| 18556888 | PROPYLENE-BASED COPOLYMER, PREPARATION PROCESS AND USE THEREOF, AND POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME | FEELY, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18034101 | AMINATION CATALYST AND PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF | SAWYER, JENNIFER C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18248996 | PROPYLENE-BUTENE COPOLYMER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 14d |
| 18705689 | POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF, AND POLYOLEFIN MICROPOROUS BREATHABLE FILM PREPARED THEREFROM | RIOJA, MELISSA A | — |
| 18705485 | POLYPROPYLENE MICROSPHERE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, 3D PRINTING RAW MATERIAL, AND USE | LE, HOA T | — |
| 18556888 | PROPYLENE-BASED COPOLYMER, PREPARATION PROCESS AND USE THEREOF, AND POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME | FEELY, MICHAEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 2 |
| 1691 | 2 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18705689 | POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITION AND USE THEREOF, AND POLYOLEFIN MICROPOROUS BREATHABLE FILM PREPARED THEREFROM | RIOJA, MELISSA A | 1764 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18705485 | POLYPROPYLENE MICROSPHERE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, 3D PRINTING RAW MATERIAL, AND USE | LE, HOA T | 1788 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18556888 | PROPYLENE-BASED COPOLYMER, PREPARATION PROCESS AND USE THEREOF, AND POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME | FEELY, MICHAEL J | 1766 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18554053 | METHOD FOR PREPARING POLYMER, AND OBTAINED POLYMER | BROOKS, KREGG T | 1764 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18034113 | AMINATION CATALYST AND PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF | SAWYER, JENNIFER C | 1691 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18034101 | AMINATION CATALYST AND PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF | SAWYER, JENNIFER C | 1691 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18248996 | PROPYLENE-BUTENE COPOLYMER, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND USE THEREOF | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1765 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Jennifer C Sawyer has the most, with 2 of BEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
