Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
CYTEC INDUSTRIES INC. is currently managing 9 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 9 pending office actions are spread across 7 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's chemical and material innovations are being reviewed by several different specialized groups. The involvement of 7 distinct art units suggests a diverse portfolio that touches on various aspects of chemistry, requiring practitioners to be familiar with multiple sets of examination guidelines. This distribution reflects a broad technical reach within the sector.
The prosecution of these 9 pending office actions involves 9 distinct examiners. This one-to-one relationship between the number of actions and the number of examiners means that each pending matter is being evaluated by a unique individual. SWIER, WAYNE K. is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. In a portfolio where 9 distinct examiners each handle a pending action, the influence of any single examiner is limited. This fragmented examiner pool requires a highly individualized strategy for each application.
For a patent practitioner, the distribution of the 9 pending office actions across the distinct art units and examiners requires a highly customized approach for each case. Since SWIER, WAYNE K. handles 1 pending office action and the other examiners handle the rest, there is no central examiner to focus on. The pending office actions represent a significant active workload within the Chemistry & Materials sector, necessitating careful coordination across the 7 distinct art units. Success depends on maintaining technical consistency while navigating nine different examiner perspectives.
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.
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.
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 only | 1 (9%) |
| §103 only | 5 (45%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1 | 67.6% | +19.6% |
| SHAH, SAMIR | 1 | 36.4% | +34.9% |
| TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE | 1 | 57.8% | +35.0% |
| MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 1 | 83.6% | +12.4% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.8% | +29.4% |
| YE, XINWEN | 1 | 43.4% | +44.0% |
| QIAO, HUIHONG | 1 | 71.2% | +25.0% |
| BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 51.8% | +45.2% |
| LU, HAOTIAN | 1 | 60.6% | +37.3% |
| MATZEK, MATTHEW D | 1 | 46.3% | +36.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821813 | SELF-RELEASING, UV BLOCKING SURFACING MATERIALS FOR COMPOSITE PARTS | SHAH, SAMIR | — |
| 18726075 | POLYMER COMPOSITIONS HAVING DENSIFICATION ACCELERATORS AND ROTATIONAL MOLDING PROCESSES FOR MAKING HOLLOW ARTICLES THEREFROM | TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE | — |
| 18719734 | MINERAL FLOTATION SEPARATION | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | — |
| 18569154 | COMPOSITE FILMS FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPONENTS | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18549052 | A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYMER FIBER AND POLYMER FIBER MADE THEREFROM | YE, XINWEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18257864 | COMPOSITE TUBING | LU, HAOTIAN | 49d overdue |
| 18009678 | FIBER REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX COMPOSITE MATERIAL | MATZEK, MATTHEW D | 46d overdue |
| 18258178 | RAPID-CURING RESIN COMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL CONTAINING THE SAME | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 10d overdue |
| 18864580 | COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 34d |
| 18821813 | SELF-RELEASING, UV BLOCKING SURFACING MATERIALS FOR COMPOSITE PARTS | SHAH, SAMIR | — |
| 18726075 | POLYMER COMPOSITIONS HAVING DENSIFICATION ACCELERATORS AND ROTATIONAL MOLDING PROCESSES FOR MAKING HOLLOW ARTICLES THEREFROM | TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE | — |
| 18719734 | MINERAL FLOTATION SEPARATION | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | — |
| 18569154 | COMPOSITE FILMS FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPONENTS | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18864580 | COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1748 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18821813 | SELF-RELEASING, UV BLOCKING SURFACING MATERIALS FOR COMPOSITE PARTS | SHAH, SAMIR | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18726075 | POLYMER COMPOSITIONS HAVING DENSIFICATION ACCELERATORS AND ROTATIONAL MOLDING PROCESSES FOR MAKING HOLLOW ARTICLES THEREFROM | TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE | 1744 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18719734 | MINERAL FLOTATION SEPARATION | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18569154 | COMPOSITE FILMS FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPONENTS | KRUER, KEVIN R | 1787 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18549052 | A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYMER FIBER AND POLYMER FIBER MADE THEREFROM | YE, XINWEN | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
| 18548871 | THERMOPLASTIC POLYAMIDE PARTICLES FOR TOUGHENING COMPOSITE MATERIALS | QIAO, HUIHONG | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18258178 | RAPID-CURING RESIN COMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL CONTAINING THE SAME | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1765 | §103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18257864 | COMPOSITE TUBING | LU, HAOTIAN | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18009678 | FIBER REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX COMPOSITE MATERIAL | MATZEK, MATTHEW D | 1786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
| 17849614 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING COATINGS FROM THE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO UV-C LIGHT | EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI | 1762 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 85d | Pending | Jun 25, 2022 |
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