Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dupont Electronics Inc. currently manages 8 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 8 distinct examiners, indicating that no two pending actions are being reviewed by the same individual. Furthermore, the prosecution effort spans 6 distinct art units, which suggests a diverse range of technical classifications for the company's current patent applications.
NGUYEN, CHAU N is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This level of distribution across 8 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units reflects a broad prosecution strategy. Practitioners should consider the variety of art units involved when coordinating responses, as the examination standards and timelines may vary across these different technical groups.
The presence of 8 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials sector highlights the active nature of the company's current engagement with the patent office. With NGUYEN, CHAU N handling 1 pending office action, the workload remains highly decentralized. This lack of concentration among examiners or art units may require a more tailored approach for each individual application within the portfolio.
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 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHAU N | 1 | 68.0% | +14.1% |
| RICE, STEVEN | 1 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
| JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 1 | 49.5% | +32.5% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.2% | +23.3% |
| FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1 | 45.9% | +6.8% |
| ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N | 1 | 72.4% | -13.1% |
| GARRETT, DAWN L | 1 | 72.6% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18187217 | PRINTING FORM PRECURSOR AND PRINTING FORM THEREOF | ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N | 73d overdue |
| 18927191 | Electrically Insulated Conductors And Methods For Electrically Insulating Conductors | NGUYEN, CHAU N | — |
| 18187072 | PHOTOIMAGABLE DIELECTRICS | FREEMAN, JOHN D | — |
| 17783009 | ELECTROACTIVE COMPOUNDS | GARRETT, DAWN L | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18454300 | TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATE AND A DOUBLE-SIDE PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC METHOD USING THE SAME | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 17d overdue |
| 18927191 | Electrically Insulated Conductors And Methods For Electrically Insulating Conductors | NGUYEN, CHAU N | — |
| 18804565 | THERMALLY STABLE CROSSLINKED POLYVINYL FLUORIDE COATING | RICE, STEVEN | — |
| 18493047 | PHOTOCURABLE CONDUCTIVE BLACK COMPOSITION AND A METHOD FOR FORMING A CURED PRODUCT THEREOF | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | — |
| 17783009 | ELECTROACTIVE COMPOUNDS | GARRETT, DAWN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1737 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18927191 | Electrically Insulated Conductors And Methods For Electrically Insulating Conductors | NGUYEN, CHAU N | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18804565 | THERMALLY STABLE CROSSLINKED POLYVINYL FLUORIDE COATING | RICE, STEVEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18493047 | PHOTOCURABLE CONDUCTIVE BLACK COMPOSITION AND A METHOD FOR FORMING A CURED PRODUCT THEREOF | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 1766 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18454300 | TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATE AND A DOUBLE-SIDE PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC METHOD USING THE SAME | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18187072 | PHOTOIMAGABLE DIELECTRICS | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18187217 | PRINTING FORM PRECURSOR AND PRINTING FORM THEREOF | ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N | 1737 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 17783009 | ELECTROACTIVE COMPOUNDS | GARRETT, DAWN L | 1786 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2022 |
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