Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Eurenco currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which distributes the workload across different officials. The matters are also split between 2 distinct art units, indicating a variety of technical subject matter within the chemistry and materials fields. This distribution requires the legal team to manage two separate sets of technical and procedural requirements.
The busiest examiner, FEELY, MICHAEL J, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents half of the 2 total pending actions for the company. With 1 busiest examiner pending action, the workload is perfectly balanced between the two assigned examiners. This scenario requires the company to manage two different examiner relationships simultaneously, each within a different art unit, necessitating a tailored approach for each specific pending matter. Practitioners should monitor the 2 distinct examiners to identify the most efficient paths to allowance for these chemical applications.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEELY, MICHAEL J | 1 | 75.1% | +41.9% |
| SERGENT, RABON A | 1 | 55.1% | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694107 | PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF POLYEPICHLOROHYDRIN | FEELY, MICHAEL J | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694107 | PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF POLYEPICHLOROHYDRIN | FEELY, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18694314 | PROCESS FOR SYNTHESISING POLYEPICHLOROHYDRIN | SERGENT, RABON A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18694107 | PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF POLYEPICHLOROHYDRIN | FEELY, MICHAEL J | 1766 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18694314 | PROCESS FOR SYNTHESISING POLYEPICHLOROHYDRIN | SERGENT, RABON A | 1765 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEurenco has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Michael J Feely has the most, with 1 of Eurenco's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
