Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Evermore Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This application is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, showing a focused approach to the company's current legal matters. This concentration allows for a unified and consistent technical argument to be presented, which can be particularly effective in the chemistry sector where technical details are critical. Such a strategy ensures that the company's innovations are clearly distinguished from the prior art in a way that the examiner can easily understand.
The portfolio is active in a distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the pending matter. BELUNIS, THOMAS JAMES, is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing the pending office action. The company must successfully address the specific prior art cited by this examiner to advance its portfolio. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's history with similar chemical technologies to craft the most persuasive arguments for patentability and to anticipate any potential hurdles in the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELUNIS, THOMAS JAMES | 1 | — | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18428196 | THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE FOAM MATERIAL, MIDSOLE OF ATHLETIC SHOE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF FOAM MATERIAL | BELUNIS, THOMAS JAMES | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEvermore Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Thomas James Belunis has the most, with 1 of Evermore Chemical Industry Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.