Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 5 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Delstar Technologies Inc. maintains a patent portfolio with 13 pending office actions, primarily focused within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This volume of activity is distributed across 12 distinct examiners, which suggests a broad range of individual perspectives on the company's patent applications. The prosecution efforts are further spread across 6 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio covers diverse sub-sectors within the chemistry and materials field.
WALSHON, SCOTT R is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This figure is low relative to the total of 13 pending actions, showing that no single examiner holds a significant majority of the company's active cases. The ratio of 13 pending actions to 12 distinct examiners highlights a highly decentralized prosecution environment where most examiners are handling only one application for this applicant. Practitioners must account for the variability introduced by 6 distinct art units when managing these 13 pending actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOI, PETER Y | 1 | 20.6% | +33.0% |
| PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | 1 | 66.7% | +15.6% |
| GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | 1 | 72.2% | +32.1% |
| SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1 | 15.2% | +22.6% |
| TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1 | 22.0% | +57.3% |
| VONCH, JEFFREY A | 1 | 52.1% | +43.8% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.4% | +28.0% |
| HUANG, RYAN | 1 | 52.9% | +31.1% |
| WALSHON, SCOTT R | 1 | 51.3% | +20.6% |
| HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 1 | 72.0% | +30.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16989209 | LOW TRAUMA WOUND DRESSINGS AND ADHESIVES FOR SAME | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 25d overdue |
| 19173950 | HIGH LOFT NONWOVEN MATERIAL | CHOI, PETER Y | — |
| 18935183 | CANNULA STABILIZATION DEVICE | GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | — |
| 18829751 | LAMINATES AND INTERLAYERS THEREOF AND METHODS FOR THE SAME | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| 18824631 | EXTERNAL PROTECTIVE SHEATH FOR STERILIZATION WRAP | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
| 18802112 | INTERLAYERS HAVING FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES FOR LAMINATED ASSEMBLIES | VONCH, JEFFREY A | — |
| 18795409 | PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES FOR LAMINATES | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | — |
| 18788396 | POROUS MEMBRANES FOR FILTRATION MEDIA | HUANG, RYAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19173950 | HIGH LOFT NONWOVEN MATERIAL | CHOI, PETER Y | — |
| 18938595 | DRESSINGS AND MEDICATED PADS FOR REMOVING SKIN DISORDERS | PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | — |
| 18935183 | CANNULA STABILIZATION DEVICE | GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | — |
| 18829751 | LAMINATES AND INTERLAYERS THEREOF AND METHODS FOR THE SAME | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| 18824631 | EXTERNAL PROTECTIVE SHEATH FOR STERILIZATION WRAP | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
| 18802112 | INTERLAYERS HAVING FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES FOR LAMINATED ASSEMBLIES | VONCH, JEFFREY A | — |
| 18795409 | PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES FOR LAMINATES | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | — |
| 18788396 | POROUS MEMBRANES FOR FILTRATION MEDIA | HUANG, RYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 2 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19173950 | HIGH LOFT NONWOVEN MATERIAL | CHOI, PETER Y | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 18938595 | DRESSINGS AND MEDICATED PADS FOR REMOVING SKIN DISORDERS | PACKARD, BENJAMIN J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18935183 | CANNULA STABILIZATION DEVICE | GRASMEDER, SARAH DYMPNA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18829751 | LAMINATES AND INTERLAYERS THEREOF AND METHODS FOR THE SAME | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18824631 | EXTERNAL PROTECTIVE SHEATH FOR STERILIZATION WRAP | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18802112 | INTERLAYERS HAVING FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES FOR LAMINATED ASSEMBLIES | VONCH, JEFFREY A | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2024 |
| 18795409 | PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES FOR LAMINATES | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18788396 | POROUS MEMBRANES FOR FILTRATION MEDIA | HUANG, RYAN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18659267 | ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS AND TAPES MADE THERFROM | WALSHON, SCOTT R | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18595506 | ABSORBENT MATERIAL FOR WOUND DRESSINGS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | HAWTHORNE, OPHELIA ALTHEA | 3786 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18364086 | COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR INHIBITING RODENT INGRESS | NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 16989209 | LOW TRAUMA WOUND DRESSINGS AND ADHESIVES FOR SAME | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1788 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2020 |
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