Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
DANIMER IPCO, LLC has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner distribution with some art-unit reuse. CHEN, VIVIAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter.
No examiner carries more than 1 pending matter in the available data. Practitioners can organize technical review by the four art units while maintaining separate examiner-specific histories for each action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.6% | +28.5% |
| LAN, YAN | 1 | 63.1% | +22.0% |
| YAGER, JAMES C | 1 | 40.8% | +26.6% |
| STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1 | 81.1% | +15.4% |
| KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1 | 64.8% | +9.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18153729 | AQUEOUS COATINGS MADE FROM POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) CAKE | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 131d overdue |
| 18405014 | BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINER CLOSURE AND RESIN THEREFOR | LAN, YAN | 19d |
| 18994204 | BIAXIALLY-ORIENTED BIODEGRADABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| 18153588 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) CAKE | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18191265 | Biodegradable Living Hinge | YAGER, JAMES C | 2d overdue |
| 18405014 | BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINER CLOSURE AND RESIN THEREFOR | LAN, YAN | 19d |
| 18994204 | BIAXIALLY-ORIENTED BIODEGRADABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| 18153588 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) CAKE | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1782 | 2 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994204 | BIAXIALLY-ORIENTED BIODEGRADABLE FILM | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18405014 | BIODEGRADABLE CONTAINER CLOSURE AND RESIN THEREFOR | LAN, YAN | 1782 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18191265 | Biodegradable Living Hinge | YAGER, JAMES C | 1782 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18153588 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) CAKE | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1766 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 18153729 | AQUEOUS COATINGS MADE FROM POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) CAKE | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 131d overdue | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDANIMER IPCO, LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Vivian Chen has the most, with 1 of DANIMER IPCO, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
