Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
14 pending office actions • 7 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Casale S.A. currently manages a portfolio featuring 12 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 11 distinct examiners, which suggests that nearly every pending application is receiving an independent review from a different official. This lack of examiner overlap can lead to a variety of prosecution styles and requirements that the company must navigate simultaneously.
The workload is further spread across 7 distinct art units, indicating a significant technical breadth in the company's patent filings within the chemistry sector. KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE is identified as the busiest examiner, currently holding 2 pending actions. Because this busiest examiner pending count of 2 is low relative to the total of 12 pending office actions, the portfolio's success is not overly dependent on the decisions of a single individual. Practitioners should prepare for a decentralized prosecution process that spans 11 distinct examiners and multiple specialized groups at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 7 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 2 | 20.8% | +95.0% |
| SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | 1 | 73.5% | +18.5% |
| SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1 | 76.9% | -1.5% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.2% |
| CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR | 1 | 80.9% | +7.2% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 78.2% | +22.2% |
| YOUNG, NATASHA E | 1 | 83.0% | +9.2% |
| SAWYER, JENNIFER C | 1 | 68.6% | -8.4% |
| MORALES, RICARDO D | 1 | 81.2% | +17.1% |
| OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 1 | 62.0% | +9.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17914158 | USE OF FERRITIC STEEL IN THE HIGH PRESSURE SECTION OF UREA PLANTS | MORALES, RICARDO D | 42d overdue |
| 18288453 | IMPROVEMENTS TO EQUIPMENT OF UREA PLANTS | CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR | — |
| 18274785 | CATALYTIC SYNTHESIS REACTOR | YOUNG, NATASHA E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16887191 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A SYNTHESIS GAS | IQBAL, SYED TAHA | 124d overdue |
| 17259692 | UREA GRANULATION PROCESS | PENNY, TABATHA L | 27d |
| 18000997 | MULTI-BED AMMONIA CONVERTER | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 34d |
| 18690027 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AMMONIA PLANT | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | — |
| 18291324 | INTEGRATED PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF AMMONIA AND NITRIC ACID | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | — |
| 18563711 | AMMONIA MIXING SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
| 18007416 | WALL ASSEMBLY FOR CATALYTIC BEDS OF SYNTHESIS REACTORS | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17914158 | USE OF FERRITIC STEEL IN THE HIGH PRESSURE SECTION OF UREA PLANTS | MORALES, RICARDO D | 42d overdue |
| 18000997 | MULTI-BED AMMONIA CONVERTER | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 34d |
| 18690027 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AMMONIA PLANT | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | — |
| 18563711 | AMMONIA MIXING SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
| 18550493 | PROCESS FOR AMMONIA SYNTHESIS USING GREEN HYDROGEN | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| 18007416 | WALL ASSEMBLY FOR CATALYTIC BEDS OF SYNTHESIS REACTORS | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 2 |
| 1691 | 2 |
| 1738 | 2 |
| 1774 | 2 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18690027 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AMMONIA PLANT | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18291324 | INTEGRATED PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF AMMONIA AND NITRIC ACID | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18563711 | AMMONIA MIXING SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18288453 | IMPROVEMENTS TO EQUIPMENT OF UREA PLANTS | CLEMENTE, ROBERT ARTHUR | 1691 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18550493 | PROCESS FOR AMMONIA SYNTHESIS USING GREEN HYDROGEN | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18274785 | CATALYTIC SYNTHESIS REACTOR | YOUNG, NATASHA E | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18007416 | WALL ASSEMBLY FOR CATALYTIC BEDS OF SYNTHESIS REACTORS | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1774 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 18000997 | MULTI-BED AMMONIA CONVERTER | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17995011 | REVAMPING OF AMMONIA-UREA PLANTS | SAWYER, JENNIFER C | 1691 | §103 | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17914158 | USE OF FERRITIC STEEL IN THE HIGH PRESSURE SECTION OF UREA PLANTS | MORALES, RICARDO D | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
| 17633756 | A METHOD FOR MEASURING A LIQUID LEVEL IN A PRESSURE VESSEL | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2022 |
| 17276607 | A PERFORATED-TRAY COLUMN AND A METHOD OF REVAMPING THE SAME | BUSHEY, CHARLES S | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Mar 16, 2021 |
| 17259692 | UREA GRANULATION PROCESS | PENNY, TABATHA L | 1712 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jan 12, 2021 |
| 16887191 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A SYNTHESIS GAS | IQBAL, SYED TAHA | 1736 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 124d overdue | Pending | May 29, 2020 |
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