Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
13 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Croda International plc has 13 pending office actions in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. The matters are assigned to 13 examiners across 9 art units, creating broad examiner coverage with several matters grouped within common technical examination areas.
BOYER, CHARLES I is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than that figure, so the docket’s workload is distributed rather than centered on a single examiner.
Art-unit groupings can help counsel identify recurring technical themes and coordinate portfolio positions. The examiner spread requires separate review of prosecution history, claim interpretation, and response practice for each pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 7 (54%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (23%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYER, CHARLES I | 1 | 70.4% | +19.7% |
| JAVANMARD, SAHAR | 1 | 64.9% | +34.1% |
| ELHILO, EISA B | 1 | 82.9% | +16.2% |
| MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C | 1 | 73.3% | +14.1% |
| WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1 | 26.9% | +65.7% |
| WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1 | 52.7% | +35.6% |
| HIRT, ERIN E | 1 | 40.6% | +22.9% |
| PIPIC, ALMA | 1 | 54.8% | +54.3% |
| FORREST, MICHAEL | 1 | 59.6% | +13.7% |
| KETCHAM, KAREN A | 1 | 19.6% | +37.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18029531 | SUSPENSION CONCENTRATE DISPERSANTS | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 5d overdue |
| 18870936 | COMPOSITION, HOME CARE FORMULATIONS, METHOD AND USE | BOYER, CHARLES I | — |
| 18837133 | AGROCHEMICAL ADJUVANTS | JAVANMARD, SAHAR | — |
| 18573285 | SEPARATION PROCESS | MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C | — |
| 17042632 | AGROCHEMICAL POLYMER DISPERSANTS | KETCHAM, KAREN A | — |
| 18014044 | POLYETHER PHOSPHATE ESTER COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND USES | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18578597 | COMPOSITION | ELHILO, EISA B | 10d overdue |
| 18029531 | SUSPENSION CONCENTRATE DISPERSANTS | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 5d overdue |
| 17792551 | FILM AND SEED COATING COMPOSITION | HIRT, ERIN E | 3d overdue |
| 18870936 | COMPOSITION, HOME CARE FORMULATIONS, METHOD AND USE | BOYER, CHARLES I | — |
| 18837133 | AGROCHEMICAL ADJUVANTS | JAVANMARD, SAHAR | — |
| 18573285 | SEPARATION PROCESS | MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C | — |
| 17799161 | SEED COATING ADDITIVE | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | — |
| 17619404 | PLANT TREATMENT COMPOSITION | PIPIC, ALMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 2 |
| 1612 | 2 |
| 1614 | 2 |
| 1622 | 1 |
| 1693 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18870936 | COMPOSITION, HOME CARE FORMULATIONS, METHOD AND USE | BOYER, CHARLES I | 1761 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18837133 | AGROCHEMICAL ADJUVANTS | JAVANMARD, SAHAR | 1622 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18578597 | COMPOSITION | ELHILO, EISA B | 1761 | — | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18573285 | SEPARATION PROCESS | MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C | 1693 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18029531 | SUSPENSION CONCENTRATE DISPERSANTS | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1612 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 17799161 | SEED COATING ADDITIVE | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2022 |
| 17792551 | FILM AND SEED COATING COMPOSITION | HIRT, ERIN E | 1616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17619404 | PLANT TREATMENT COMPOSITION | PIPIC, ALMA | 1617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2021 |
| 17044663 | TITANIUM DIOXIDE PARTICLES | FORREST, MICHAEL | 1738 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2020 |
| 17042632 | AGROCHEMICAL POLYMER DISPERSANTS | KETCHAM, KAREN A | 1614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2020 |
| 18014044 | POLYETHER PHOSPHATE ESTER COMPOUNDS, COMPOSITIONS AND USES | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
| 17801034 | COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING HYDROLYSED PROTEINS | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
| 16760661 | 1,3-PROPYLENE ETHER DERIVED COMPOUNDS FOR PERSONAL CARE | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialCroda International plc has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 13 examiners.
Charles I Boyer has the most, with 1 of Croda International plc's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
