Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Borregaard AS currently faces 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's current patent applications cover a variety of chemical or material subjects that fall under different administrative jurisdictions at the USPTO. The presence of 2 distinct art units means that the company must navigate different sets of internal guidelines and technical expertise.
GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A is the busiest examiner for Borregaard AS, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is divided among the 2 distinct examiners. This distribution of actions to examiners indicates that no single examiner is handling a bulk of the portfolio. Practitioners should note that with 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy may need to be tailored to the specific standards of each unit despite the small number of total actions. The 2 pending office actions represent the entirety of the company's current pending workload.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 36.0% | +34.9% |
| MARTIN, ANGELA J | 1 | 67.3% | -31.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16979515 | DISPERSANT AND BINDER FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BASED ON MODIFIED LIGNIN AND CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE | MARTIN, ANGELA J | 14d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721531 | RUMINANT FEED OR SUPPLEMENT FOR RUMINANT FEED AND PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18721531 | RUMINANT FEED OR SUPPLEMENT FOR RUMINANT FEED AND PROCESS FOR PREPARING THE SAME | GWARTNEY, ELIZABETH A | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 16979515 | DISPERSANT AND BINDER FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BASED ON MODIFIED LIGNIN AND CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE | MARTIN, ANGELA J | 1727 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 09, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialBorregaard AS has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Elizabeth A Gwartney has the most, with 1 of Borregaard AS's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
