Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dickinson Corporation is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 2 pending office actions. These matters are split between 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's chemical or material science filings are being evaluated in different specialized sections of the patent office. The involvement of distinct examiners means that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual, ensuring an independent assessment of each application.
HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE is the busiest examiner for the corporation, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total and distinct examiners, the workload is distributed. This spread across the 2 distinct art units and examiners suggests a lack of concentration in the current prosecution phase, requiring separate strategies for each of the active matters. The applicant must navigate the specific requirements of different examination environments simultaneously.
For a practitioner, this distribution within the Chemistry & Materials portfolio means that prosecution tactics cannot be unified. Each of the examiners may have different interpretations of the prior art or procedural rules. The presence of the 1 pending office action under the busiest examiner represents a portion of the company's current active cases. Consequently, the outcome of each individual matter carries significant weight for the overall success of the corporation's patent strategy. The applicant should focus on the specific technical nuances required by each assigned art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1 | 54.7% | +22.5% |
| MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | 1 | 71.9% | +16.4% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18338017 | OXYANIONIC TEMPLATES FOR SURFACE REPLICATION | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 46d overdue |
| 18129282 | SYNTHESIS OF PERIMORPHIC MATERIALS | MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18338017 | OXYANIONIC TEMPLATES FOR SURFACE REPLICATION | HERNANDEZ-KENNEY, JOSE | 1717 | §112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18129282 | SYNTHESIS OF PERIMORPHIC MATERIALS | MCCRACKEN, DANIEL | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDickinson Corporation has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jose Hernandez-Kenney has the most, with 1 of Dickinson Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
