Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Elementis Specialties Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, JIANGTIAN XU, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. Prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very focused prosecution status for the organization.
The 1 pending office action represents the total volume of current interaction with the patent office. Since the prosecution is situated within the Chemistry & Materials technology area, the company's legal focus remains specialized. JIANGTIAN XU, as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, is the sole point of contact for the company's active intellectual property matters. This 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit arrangement simplifies the management of the current portfolio, as there are no competing deadlines or varying examiner styles to navigate.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XU, JIANGTIAN | 1 | 64.9% | +35.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18225279 | POLYAMIDE RHEOLOGY MODIFIERS FOR AQUEOUS COATING | XU, JIANGTIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18225279 | POLYAMIDE RHEOLOGY MODIFIERS FOR AQUEOUS COATING | XU, JIANGTIAN | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialElementis Specialties Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jiangtian Xu has the most, with 1 of Elementis Specialties Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
