Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Econic Technologies Ltd. has 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units. This high ratio of examiners to pending actions suggests that each case is receiving individual attention from a different examiner, with very little overlap in personnel. The involvement of 4 distinct art units indicates that the company's chemical technologies are being reviewed by several different specialized groups within the patent office.
The busiest examiner, DU, SURBHI M, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently managing exactly 1 case. This distribution requires the applicant to adapt to the specific styles of 5 different individuals across 4 distinct art units, making a centralized prosecution strategy more difficult to implement. Practitioners must be prepared to address 5 unique sets of examiner feedback, as no single individual holds influence over more than 1 pending matter in the Chemistry & Materials field at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DU, SURBHI M | 1 | 66.9% | +29.1% |
| MRUK, BRIAN P | 1 | 74.2% | +27.9% |
| SERGENT, RABON A | 1 | 55.0% | +24.1% |
| CAI, WENWEN | 1 | 59.8% | +19.4% |
| DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 1 | 56.4% | +61.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18035669 | (POLY)OL BLOCK COPOLYMER | CAI, WENWEN | 13d |
| 17802267 | A POLYOL BLOCK COPOLYMER | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 54d |
| 19239131 | POLYOL BLOCK COPOLYMER, COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES THEREFOR | DU, SURBHI M | — |
| 18294312 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SURFACTANTS BY COPOLYMERISATION OF EPOXIDES AND CO2 USING A MIXTURE OF A MACROCYCLIC BIMETAL CATALYST AND A DOUBLE METAL CYANIDE CATALYST | SERGENT, RABON A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18035669 | (POLY)OL BLOCK COPOLYMER | CAI, WENWEN | 13d |
| 17802267 | A POLYOL BLOCK COPOLYMER | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 54d |
| 19239131 | POLYOL BLOCK COPOLYMER, COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES THEREFOR | DU, SURBHI M | — |
| 18701535 | SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT | MRUK, BRIAN P | — |
| 18294312 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SURFACTANTS BY COPOLYMERISATION OF EPOXIDES AND CO2 USING A MIXTURE OF A MACROCYCLIC BIMETAL CATALYST AND A DOUBLE METAL CYANIDE CATALYST | SERGENT, RABON A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19239131 | POLYOL BLOCK COPOLYMER, COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES THEREFOR | DU, SURBHI M | 1765 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 18701535 | SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT | MRUK, BRIAN P | 1761 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18294312 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SURFACTANTS BY COPOLYMERISATION OF EPOXIDES AND CO2 USING A MIXTURE OF A MACROCYCLIC BIMETAL CATALYST AND A DOUBLE METAL CYANIDE CATALYST | SERGENT, RABON A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18035669 | (POLY)OL BLOCK COPOLYMER | CAI, WENWEN | 1763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 17802267 | A POLYOL BLOCK COPOLYMER | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 1766 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Aug 25, 2022 |
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