Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Dow Quimica Mexicana S A De C V is currently prosecuting 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 2 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's chemical research is being reviewed by multiple specialized divisions. This distribution reflects a diverse technical focus for the active applications. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's chemistry-related claims are being tested against different sets of prior art.
The company interacts with 2 distinct examiners, one for each of the pending cases. LENIHAN, JEFFREY S is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 distinct examiners handling the 2 pending office actions, the company's immediate success in the Chemistry & Materials sector is divided between two independent examination processes. This structure prevents a single examiner from having total control over the company's current patent filings, requiring a strategy that accounts for the specific preferences of 2 distinct examiners and 1 busiest examiner pending action handled by LENIHAN, JEFFREY S.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 73.3% | +16.8% |
| PAUL, SHREYA | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875353 | CLEANING COMPOSITION FOR RECYCLING OF PLASTICS | PAUL, SHREYA | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19113744 | BIMODAL HDPE AND POLYETHYLENE BLEND CONTAINING VIRGIN AND RECYCLED HDPE MATERIALS | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19113744 | BIMODAL HDPE AND POLYETHYLENE BLEND CONTAINING VIRGIN AND RECYCLED HDPE MATERIALS | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1765 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 18875353 | CLEANING COMPOSITION FOR RECYCLING OF PLASTICS | PAUL, SHREYA | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
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