Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Formosa Plastics Corporation is currently managing 7 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 7 distinct examiners, indicating that the company's current interactions with the patent office are decentralized. This arrangement means that the prosecution of each application is subject to the independent evaluation of a different examiner.
The company's pending matters are spread across 5 distinct art units. This distribution across 5 units within the Chemistry & Materials sector suggests a diverse range of technical subject matter that requires oversight from multiple specialized divisions. The coordination of the pending office actions involves navigating the specific examination cultures of several different patent office branches.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SWANSON, ANDREW L, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this busiest examiner only handles 1 of the pending office actions, the workload is distributed among the 7 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration ensures that no individual examiner's backlog or specific review style has a disproportionate impact on the company's overall pending portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (57%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWANSON, ANDREW L | 1 | 66.7% | +11.6% |
| WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1 | 54.9% | +45.9% |
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +25.0% |
| PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1 | 74.4% | +21.9% |
| SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | 1 | 73.5% | +18.5% |
| LE, EMILY M | 1 | 17.6% | -3.1% |
| HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 1 | 79.6% | +13.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18314362 | ELECTROLYTIC CELL AND ELECTROLYTIC CELLS IN SERIES, WHICH CAN BE USED AS CHLORALKALI ELECTROLYTIC CELL AND PROCESS CO2 | LE, EMILY M | 27d |
| 19210687 | IMPREGNATION METHOD FOR FIBER PREPREG | SWANSON, ANDREW L | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18540128 | SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 30d overdue |
| 19210687 | IMPREGNATION METHOD FOR FIBER PREPREG | SWANSON, ANDREW L | — |
| 18750430 | SIZING AGENT COMPOSITION, SIZING AGENT, CARBON FIBER COVERED WITH SIZING AGENT, AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL | WEISS, PAMELA HL | — |
| 18453138 | RESIN MATRIX COMPOSITION, PREPREG, CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF FORMING RESIN MATRIX | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | — |
| 18343168 | SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | — |
| 18173668 | THERMOPLASTIC VULCANIZATE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19210687 | IMPREGNATION METHOD FOR FIBER PREPREG | SWANSON, ANDREW L | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 18750430 | SIZING AGENT COMPOSITION, SIZING AGENT, CARBON FIBER COVERED WITH SIZING AGENT, AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL | WEISS, PAMELA HL | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18540128 | SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18453138 | RESIN MATRIX COMPOSITION, PREPREG, CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD OF FORMING RESIN MATRIX | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18343168 | SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18314362 | ELECTROLYTIC CELL AND ELECTROLYTIC CELLS IN SERIES, WHICH CAN BE USED AS CHLORALKALI ELECTROLYTIC CELL AND PROCESS CO2 | LE, EMILY M | 1793 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18173668 | THERMOPLASTIC VULCANIZATE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 1742 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
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