Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 5 of 7 (71%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
IMERTECH SAS currently manages 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct art units, suggesting a varied technical focus within the material sciences. The breadth of 5 art units indicates that the portfolio covers a wide array of chemical processes or material compositions.
Prosecution is handled by 7 distinct examiners. O'HERN, BRENT T is identified as the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This indicates that the portfolio's pending workload is dispersed among the assigned examining staff. With 7 distinct examiners involved, the company faces a diverse range of individual examination styles, requiring a flexible approach to prosecution. This distribution ensures that the outcome of the 7 pending office actions is not overly dependent on the perspective of any single examiner.
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.
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.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.8% |
| GREEN, ANTHONY J | 1 | 85.0% | +13.5% |
| WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1 | 62.1% | +29.6% |
| LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ALAM, AYAAN A | 1 | 38.4% | +35.6% |
| D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1 | 68.1% | +41.8% |
| DIGGS, TANISHA | 1 | 55.1% | +53.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547538 | PARTICULATE MATERIAL SUITABLE FOR USE AS CAT LITTER | LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711316 | A COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING CALCIUM SILICATE AND PRECIPITATED CALCIUM CARBONATE PARTICULATE MATERIAL | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18566894 | ANTI-BREAKING ELEMENT COMPRISING A GEOPOLYMER COMBINING FIRE RESISTANCE AND BREAK-IN RESISTANCE | GREEN, ANTHONY J | — |
| 18549649 | SURFACE MODIFIED CALCIUM CARBONATE AND USE THEREOF IN POLYMER SYSTEMS | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17299653 | EXPANDED AND EXPANDABLE GRANULAR MATERIALS | DIGGS, TANISHA | 86d overdue |
| 17800554 | USE OF MICA IN PRESSED POWDER | ALAM, AYAAN A | 29d overdue |
| 17767223 | GRAPHITE COMPOSITIONS AND USES IN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 5d |
| 18711316 | A COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING CALCIUM SILICATE AND PRECIPITATED CALCIUM CARBONATE PARTICULATE MATERIAL | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18566894 | ANTI-BREAKING ELEMENT COMPRISING A GEOPOLYMER COMBINING FIRE RESISTANCE AND BREAK-IN RESISTANCE | GREEN, ANTHONY J | — |
| 18549649 | SURFACE MODIFIED CALCIUM CARBONATE AND USE THEREOF IN POLYMER SYSTEMS | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1742 | 2 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711316 | A COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING CALCIUM SILICATE AND PRECIPITATED CALCIUM CARBONATE PARTICULATE MATERIAL | O'HERN, BRENT T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18566894 | ANTI-BREAKING ELEMENT COMPRISING A GEOPOLYMER COMBINING FIRE RESISTANCE AND BREAK-IN RESISTANCE | GREEN, ANTHONY J | 1731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18549649 | SURFACE MODIFIED CALCIUM CARBONATE AND USE THEREOF IN POLYMER SYSTEMS | WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL | 1742 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18547538 | PARTICULATE MATERIAL SUITABLE FOR USE AS CAT LITTER | LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | AI Ready | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 17800554 | USE OF MICA IN PRESSED POWDER | ALAM, AYAAN A | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | AI Ready | Aug 18, 2022 |
| 17767223 | GRAPHITE COMPOSITIONS AND USES IN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | AI Ready | Apr 07, 2022 |
| 17299653 | EXPANDED AND EXPANDABLE GRANULAR MATERIALS | DIGGS, TANISHA | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d overdue | AI Ready | Jun 03, 2021 |
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