Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Formosa Plastics Corporation U S A currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a concentrated focus within its primary technical domain. The prosecution work involves 4 distinct examiners, reflecting a balanced distribution of matters across assigned personnel. This structure suggests that while the technical scope is narrow, the company must navigate the individual preferences of multiple reviewers simultaneously.
MCCAIG, BRIAN A is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. While the workload is spread among the assigned examiners, the presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the legal strategy must account for the specific procedural nuances of these different administrative groups. Practitioners should monitor the 4 pending office actions to identify potential trends in examiner feedback across the Chemistry & Materials sector. Managing the various reviewers requires a coordinated approach to ensure that arguments made in one case do not negatively impact the others.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCAIG, BRIAN A | 1 | 80.4% | +13.3% |
| GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1 | 73.0% | +18.5% |
| LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1 | 49.7% | +15.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18455236 | CATALYSTS COMPONENT AND PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYPROPYLENE HAVING HIGH MELT FLOW RATE WITH HIGH ISOTACTICITY | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 27d |
| 18609678 | OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYST COMPONENTS CONTAINING DIGLYCIDYLESTER COMPONENTS AND ITS USE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYPROPYLENE HAVING HIGH ISOTACTICITY AT HIGH MELT FLOW RATE | MCCAIG, BRIAN A | — |
| 18477901 | METHOD FOR PREPARING CATALYST COMPONENT FOR POLYMERIZATION OF POLYOLEFIN WITHOUT THE USE OF INTERNAL ELECTRON DONORS | LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18455236 | CATALYSTS COMPONENT AND PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYPROPYLENE HAVING HIGH MELT FLOW RATE WITH HIGH ISOTACTICITY | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 27d |
| 18609678 | OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYST COMPONENTS CONTAINING DIGLYCIDYLESTER COMPONENTS AND ITS USE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYPROPYLENE HAVING HIGH ISOTACTICITY AT HIGH MELT FLOW RATE | MCCAIG, BRIAN A | — |
| 18597519 | PROCESS FOR MAKING A SOLID CATALYST COMPONENT FOR ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION AND CO-POLYMERIZATION WITH HIGH ACTIVITY AND IMPROVED REACTOR OPERABILITY | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18609678 | OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYST COMPONENTS CONTAINING DIGLYCIDYLESTER COMPONENTS AND ITS USE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYPROPYLENE HAVING HIGH ISOTACTICITY AT HIGH MELT FLOW RATE | MCCAIG, BRIAN A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18597519 | PROCESS FOR MAKING A SOLID CATALYST COMPONENT FOR ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION AND CO-POLYMERIZATION WITH HIGH ACTIVITY AND IMPROVED REACTOR OPERABILITY | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18477901 | METHOD FOR PREPARING CATALYST COMPONENT FOR POLYMERIZATION OF POLYOLEFIN WITHOUT THE USE OF INTERNAL ELECTRON DONORS | LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC | 1732 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18455236 | CATALYSTS COMPONENT AND PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYPROPYLENE HAVING HIGH MELT FLOW RATE WITH HIGH ISOTACTICITY | KUMAR, SRILAKSHMI K | 1738 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
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