Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hanwha Azdel Inc. currently has 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, indicating a slight concentration of the workload. Specifically, SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R is the busiest examiner, managing 2 pending office actions, while other actions are split among the 4 distinct examiners identified in the portfolio. This distribution allows the applicant to potentially identify patterns in the busiest examiner's review process across multiple cases.
The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, which introduces variety in the examination standards applied to the applications. Because SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R handles 2 of the 5 pending office actions, the applicant may be able to apply insights from one case to the other. However, the presence of 3 distinct art units still requires the applicant to navigate multiple administrative environments within the USPTO. Managing 5 pending office actions across 4 distinct examiners requires a balanced approach between examiner-specific and art-unit-specific strategies.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1 | 51.3% | +30.2% |
| SIMONE, CATHERINE A | 1 | 73.3% | +22.8% |
| COONEY, JOHN M | 1 | 62.8% | +21.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19060236 | LIGHTWEIGHT REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE ARTICLES WITH A PRINTABLE SURFACE AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PRODUCING THEM | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | — |
| 18209774 | HIGH STRENGTH TO WEIGHT CONSOLIDATED POROUS CORE LAYERS AND ARTICLES INCLUDING THEM | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629413 | REINFORCED FLOORING AND FLOORING PANELS WITH AMORPHOUS MATERIALS | SIMONE, CATHERINE A | 42d overdue |
| 19060236 | LIGHTWEIGHT REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE ARTICLES WITH A PRINTABLE SURFACE AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PRODUCING THEM | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | — |
| 18209774 | HIGH STRENGTH TO WEIGHT CONSOLIDATED POROUS CORE LAYERS AND ARTICLES INCLUDING THEM | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19060236 | LIGHTWEIGHT REINFORCED THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE ARTICLES WITH A PRINTABLE SURFACE AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PRODUCING THEM | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18629413 | REINFORCED FLOORING AND FLOORING PANELS WITH AMORPHOUS MATERIALS | SIMONE, CATHERINE A | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18209774 | HIGH STRENGTH TO WEIGHT CONSOLIDATED POROUS CORE LAYERS AND ARTICLES INCLUDING THEM | COONEY, JOHN M | 1765 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
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