Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chemstone Inc. is currently navigating 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, indicating that no two pending matters are being reviewed by the same individual. This prosecution activity is spread across 4 distinct art units, creating a direct ratio between the number of pending actions, the number of examiners, and the number of art units involved.
MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners each handling 1 of the 4 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed across the 4 distinct art units. This structure suggests that the company's 4 pending matters in Chemistry & Materials are technically diverse enough to be routed to 4 different specialized units within the patent office. Practitioners must manage multiple examiner interactions, as no individual examiner or art unit holds a majority of the 4 pending office actions.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | 1 | 78.8% | +15.3% |
| FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1 | 79.5% | +9.9% |
| ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1 | 62.1% | +20.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18914783 | Method of Modifying Polymer Barrier Films | MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | — |
| 17314826 | METHODS FOR BIOBASED DERIVATIZATION OF CELLULOSIC AND SYNTHETIC MATERIALS AND ARTICLES OBTAINED THEREFROM | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18914783 | Method of Modifying Polymer Barrier Films | MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | — |
| 17314826 | METHODS FOR BIOBASED DERIVATIZATION OF CELLULOSIC AND SYNTHETIC MATERIALS AND ARTICLES OBTAINED THEREFROM | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18914783 | Method of Modifying Polymer Barrier Films | MULVANEY, ELIZABETH EVANS | 1785 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18035393 | ENHANCED CELLULOSE NANOFIBRILS (CNF) | FORTUNA, JOSE A | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 17314826 | METHODS FOR BIOBASED DERIVATIZATION OF CELLULOSIC AND SYNTHETIC MATERIALS AND ARTICLES OBTAINED THEREFROM | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1744 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialChemstone Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Elizabeth Evans Mulvaney has the most, with 1 of Chemstone Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
