Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chevron Japan Ltd. is currently addressing 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, showing a slight concentration of work within the portfolio. All 3 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, which provides a consistent procedural environment for the company's filings. This focus on 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative landscape for the 2 distinct examiners involved.
MCAVOY, ELLEN M is the busiest examiner, managing 2 of the 3 pending actions. The remaining action is assigned to the other of the 2 distinct examiners. This concentration makes MCAVOY, ELLEN M a primary point of contact for the company's current Chemistry & Materials prosecution. With 3 pending office actions in total, the company maintains a small but focused presence, with a portion of those actions consolidated under a single examiner's review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 2 | 72.8% | +8.7% |
| GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1 | 63.7% | +8.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709463 | HIGH EFFICIENCY ENGINE OIL COMPOSITIONS | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19172466 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING OR REDUCING LOW SPEED PRE-IGNITION IN DIRECT INJECTED SPARK-IGNITED ENGINES WITH MOLYBDENUM-CONTAINING LUBRICANT COMPOSITIONS | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 18709463 | HIGH EFFICIENCY ENGINE OIL COMPOSITIONS | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1771 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18023945 | LUBRICATING OIL CONTAINING ALKYL PHOSPHONIC ACID | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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