Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Follmann GmbH & Co. Kg is managing 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 3 actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the prosecution is occurring in 3 distinct art units, showing that each pending matter is being reviewed in a different technical context. This distribution suggests a diverse range of applications within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 matter. This 1-to-1 ratio between actions and examiners across 3 distinct art units means the company is navigating three separate prosecution tracks. Practitioners should prepare for different examination styles and prior art landscapes for each action.
The lack of overlap in examiners or art units indicates independent reviews for each of the 3 pending office actions. For a patent practitioner, this requires a diversified strategy to address the specific requirements of each of the 3 distinct art units involved. The company's current standing in the Chemistry & Materials field is distributed across these three separate administrative and technical paths.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1 | 48.7% | +35.4% |
| HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1 | 67.2% | +41.1% |
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.1% | -4.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18012106 | IMPROVED MICROCAPSULES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291039 | ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MICROCAPSULES AND A METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 19d |
| 18556630 | POLYMERIZATION OF A SILANE-MODIFIED POLYMER, WHICH IS PRODUCED BY MEANS OF A RADICAL CHAIN POLYMERIZATION, IN A POLYOL OR IN A PREPOLYMER WITH TERMINAL ISOCYANATE GROUPS, AND USE THEREOF IN POLYURETHANE FORMULATIONS | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291039 | ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MICROCAPSULES AND A METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 19d |
| 18556630 | POLYMERIZATION OF A SILANE-MODIFIED POLYMER, WHICH IS PRODUCED BY MEANS OF A RADICAL CHAIN POLYMERIZATION, IN A POLYOL OR IN A PREPOLYMER WITH TERMINAL ISOCYANATE GROUPS, AND USE THEREOF IN POLYURETHANE FORMULATIONS | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291039 | ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MICROCAPSULES AND A METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18556630 | POLYMERIZATION OF A SILANE-MODIFIED POLYMER, WHICH IS PRODUCED BY MEANS OF A RADICAL CHAIN POLYMERIZATION, IN A POLYOL OR IN A PREPOLYMER WITH TERMINAL ISOCYANATE GROUPS, AND USE THEREOF IN POLYURETHANE FORMULATIONS | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1748 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
| 18012106 | IMPROVED MICROCAPSULES AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1766 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialFollmann GmbH & Co. Kg has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Brittany Sharon Harris has the most, with 1 of Follmann GmbH & Co. Kg's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
