Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coatex has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This means that every single pending action is being reviewed by a different official in a different administrative division of the patent office, showing a high level of decentralization.
MINSKEY, JACOB T is the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units involved, the company's prosecution in the Chemistry & Materials sector is spread across many different technical specialties. Practitioners must be prepared to address four different sets of examiner preferences and art unit standards simultaneously, as there is no concentration of workload under any single official or unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 3 (75%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.3% | +33.1% |
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1 | 51.5% | +50.4% |
| MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1 | 71.1% | +10.9% |
| NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1 | 56.6% | +29.0% |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005124 | RHEOLOGY-MODIFYING DIURETHANE COMPOUND | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 73d overdue |
| 18709676 | DISPERSION-STABILISED MINERAL SUSPENSION | MINSKEY, JACOB T | — |
| 18253992 | COPOLYMER HAVING VISCOELASTIC AND SUSPENSIVE PROPERTIES | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | — |
| 17785547 | HEAT-STABILIZED AQUEOUS COMPOSITION | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709676 | DISPERSION-STABILISED MINERAL SUSPENSION | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18253992 | COPOLYMER HAVING VISCOELASTIC AND SUSPENSIVE PROPERTIES | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18005124 | RHEOLOGY-MODIFYING DIURETHANE COMPOUND | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Jan 11, 2023 |
| 17785547 | HEAT-STABILIZED AQUEOUS COMPOSITION | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 15, 2022 |
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