Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Elkem Silicones Shanghai Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the prosecution workload. The application is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, which provides a specific technical context for the examination. This structure allows the applicant to focus their resources on the 1 distinct examiner at the patent office. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit ensures that the review remains within a specialized technical group.
MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of 1 pending office action represents the entire current docket, this examiner is responsible for all active matters. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with the assigned art unit simplifies the tracking of procedural developments and deadlines. Practitioners can tailor their responses to the specific preferences of this examiner to move the application forward efficiently while maintaining a consistent technical narrative.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1 | 58.6% | +16.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790377 | AN ABRASION RESISTANT MULTI-LAYERED COMPOSITE | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790377 | AN ABRASION RESISTANT MULTI-LAYERED COMPOSITE | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17790377 | AN ABRASION RESISTANT MULTI-LAYERED COMPOSITE | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1767 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialElkem Silicones Shanghai Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Megan Cassandra Mcculley has the most, with 1 of Elkem Silicones Shanghai Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
