Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Formosa Plastics Corporation

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE 1 33.4% +25.1%
CRANDALL, BRADIE SHELTON 1
BAREFORD, KATHERINE A 1 13.5% +28.5%
QUIST, NICOLE LEE 1 93.9% +8.3%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17871517 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON FIBER AND CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE BOTTLE QUIST, NICOLE LEE 93d overdue

Hard Cases (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18080564 FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME BAREFORD, KATHERINE A 26d

Interview Candidates (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18540128 SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE 30d overdue
18080564 FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME BAREFORD, KATHERINE A 26d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1789 1
1793 1
1718 1
1738 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18540128 SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18314362 ELECTROLYTIC CELL AND ELECTROLYTIC CELLS IN SERIES, WHICH CAN BE USED AS CHLORALKALI ELECTROLYTIC CELL AND PROCESS CO2 CRANDALL, BRADIE SHELTON 1793 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending May 09, 2023
18080564 FIBER COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME BAREFORD, KATHERINE A 1718 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Dec 13, 2022
17871517 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CARBON FIBER AND CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE BOTTLE QUIST, NICOLE LEE 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2022

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