Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Harcros Chemicals Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating separate examination settings within the portfolio.
TOOMER, CEPHIA D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The current activity is not centered on that examiner. Counsel should maintain distinct prosecution plans for the two matters, while using the shared chemistry and materials context to coordinate technical explanations and avoid inconsistent positions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUNYAN, SILVANA C | 1 | 82.5% | +17.0% |
| TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1 | 74.4% | +2.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687032 | ULTRA-SHORT HYDROPHOBE ALKOXYLATES AS SOLVENTS OR COSOLVENTS | RUNYAN, SILVANA C | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687037 | ULTRA SHORT HYDROPHOBES FOR UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS WITH LIGHT OILS CONTAINING SOLUTION GAS | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687032 | ULTRA-SHORT HYDROPHOBE ALKOXYLATES AS SOLVENTS OR COSOLVENTS | RUNYAN, SILVANA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18687032 | ULTRA-SHORT HYDROPHOBE ALKOXYLATES AS SOLVENTS OR COSOLVENTS | RUNYAN, SILVANA C | 1616 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18687037 | ULTRA SHORT HYDROPHOBES FOR UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS WITH LIGHT OILS CONTAINING SOLUTION GAS | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHarcros Chemicals Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Silvana C Runyan has the most, with 1 of Harcros Chemicals Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
