Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

CYTEC INDUSTRIES INC.

10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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%)
9
Medium (90%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (80%)
§102 only1 (10%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

9
Life Sciences
90% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SWIER, WAYNE K. 1 67.5% +19.0%
FEELY, MICHAEL J 1 75.1% +41.7%
DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA 1 75.9% +12.2%
BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 1 53.3% +47.1%
LU, HAOTIAN 1 50.0% +37.9%
MATZEK, MATTHEW D 1 45.8% +37.1%
FANG, SHANE 1 76.2% +18.9%
EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI 1 69.8% +14.0%
CAI, WENWEN 1 59.9% +20.2%
GROSSO, GREGORY CHAD 1 70.9% +18.2%

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18898207 FAST-CURE RESIN FORMULATIONS WITH CONSISTENT HANDLING CHARACTERISTICS FEELY, MICHAEL J 81d overdue
18257864 COMPOSITE TUBING LU, HAOTIAN 49d overdue
18009678 FIBER REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX COMPOSITE MATERIAL MATZEK, MATTHEW D 46d overdue
17535089 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING ORGANIC POLYMERIC MATERIALS FROM THE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO UV-C LIGHT CAI, WENWEN 17d overdue
18258178 RAPID-CURING RESIN COMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL CONTAINING THE SAME BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 10d overdue
18008733 SULFUR-CONTAINING MATERIAL AND USE THEREOF FANG, SHANE 1d overdue
18258910 A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYACRYLONITRILE-BASED FIBER HAVING CONTROLLED MORPHOLOGY DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA 19d
18864580 COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME SWIER, WAYNE K. 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1748 2
1766 2
1763 2
1765 1
3753 1
1786 1
1762 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18864580 COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME SWIER, WAYNE K. 1748 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 11, 2024
18898207 FAST-CURE RESIN FORMULATIONS WITH CONSISTENT HANDLING CHARACTERISTICS FEELY, MICHAEL J 1766 Other Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
18258910 A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYACRYLONITRILE-BASED FIBER HAVING CONTROLLED MORPHOLOGY DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18258178 RAPID-CURING RESIN COMPOSITION AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL CONTAINING THE SAME BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 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 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2022
18008733 SULFUR-CONTAINING MATERIAL AND USE THEREOF FANG, SHANE 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2022
17849614 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING COATINGS FROM THE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO UV-C LIGHT EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI 1762 §102 Final Rejection 85d Pending Jun 25, 2022
17535089 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING ORGANIC POLYMERIC MATERIALS FROM THE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO UV-C LIGHT CAI, WENWEN 1763 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Nov 24, 2021
17416363 AUTOMATED PLACEMENT OF PREPREG TAPES TO FORM COMPOSITE PARTS GROSSO, GREGORY CHAD 1748 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 18, 2021

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