Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cabot Corporation currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio exhibits a high degree of dispersion, as these 3 actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units indicates a diverse range of technical sub-specialties or varied filing strategies within the company's chemical portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is VAJDA, PETER L, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 pending actions is assigned to a different examiner, no single individual dominates the current prosecution landscape. This lack of concentration means that practitioners cannot rely on a single examiner's history to predict outcomes across the portfolio. Each application represents a unique interaction with a different part of the patent office's administrative structure.
Operating across 3 distinct art units within Chemistry & Materials suggests that Cabot Corporation is pursuing broad protection for its innovations. The administrative complexity is higher than a centralized portfolio, as each of the 3 pending matters requires engagement with a different examiner and potentially different art unit policies. Success in this environment depends on managing three unique prosecution tracks simultaneously while addressing the specific technical requirements of each distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAJDA, PETER L | 1 | 75.1% | +12.9% |
| LEE, DORIS L | 1 | 58.7% | +8.8% |
| RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 72.7% | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17591853 | SILICA REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 53d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17591853 | SILICA REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 53d |
| 18750344 | COMPOSITE PARTICLES FOR TONER ADDITIVES | VAJDA, PETER L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1737 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18750344 | COMPOSITE PARTICLES FOR TONER ADDITIVES | VAJDA, PETER L | 1737 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 17801362 | SILICONE-BASED COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES FOR CONDUCTIVE AND EMI SHIELDING APPLICATIONS | LEE, DORIS L | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Aug 22, 2022 |
| 17591853 | SILICA REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANES | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1766 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Feb 03, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCabot Corporation has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Peter L Vajda has the most, with 1 of Cabot Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
