Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Croda International PLC

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
No statute on record1 (20%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
20% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1 33.3% +76.9%
BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN 1 78.8% +11.0%
BARBER, KIMBERLY 1 73.3% +14.7%
SHIN, MONICA A 1 50.3% +47.0%
HOLT, ANDRIAE M 1 48.7% +21.6%

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18010361 PROCESS FOR PREPARING SURFACTANT BARBER, KIMBERLY 30d overdue
18029531 SUSPENSION CONCENTRATE DISPERSANTS WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 5d overdue
17792551 FILM AND SEED COATING COMPOSITION SHIN, MONICA A 3d overdue
17775986 SOIL WETTER COMPOSITION HOLT, ANDRIAE M 27d
18005462 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE GROWTH OF GERMINATIVE GROWTHS FROM GERMINATIVE UNITS BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN 46d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1612 1
2662 1
1615 1
1616 1
1614 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18029531 SUSPENSION CONCENTRATE DISPERSANTS WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS 1612 Other Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Mar 30, 2023
18005462 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE GROWTH OF GERMINATIVE GROWTHS FROM GERMINATIVE UNITS BUDISALICH, ANDREW STEVEN 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Jan 13, 2023
18010361 PROCESS FOR PREPARING SURFACTANT BARBER, KIMBERLY 1615 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
17792551 FILM AND SEED COATING COMPOSITION SHIN, MONICA A 1616 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2022
17775986 SOIL WETTER COMPOSITION HOLT, ANDRIAE M 1614 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 11, 2022

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