Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Celanese Mercury Holdings Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and the distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending matter is being handled independently by a different examiner in a different administrative section of the patent office. The lack of overlap between the examiners and art units suggests that the company's current pending applications cover distinct technical subfields within the broader chemistry domain.
THOMAS, JAISON P is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action under their review. Since there are distinct examiners for the pending actions, the workload is evenly divided, with each examiner responsible for 1 pending office action. The presence of the 2 distinct art units for the actions indicates that the company's current patent interests in Chemistry & Materials are being evaluated under different technical frameworks. This requires the company to maintain separate prosecution strategies tailored to the specific requirements of each examiner and art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS, JAISON P | 1 | 82.8% | +17.6% |
| NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1 | 64.8% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19189336 | Polymer Thick Film Positive Temperature Coefficient Carbon Resistor Composition | THOMAS, JAISON P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19189336 | Polymer Thick Film Positive Temperature Coefficient Carbon Resistor Composition | THOMAS, JAISON P | — |
| 18815900 | Conductive Paste | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19189336 | Polymer Thick Film Positive Temperature Coefficient Carbon Resistor Composition | THOMAS, JAISON P | 1762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 18815900 | Conductive Paste | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCelanese Mercury Holdings Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jaison P Thomas has the most, with 1 of Celanese Mercury Holdings Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
