Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Indian Oil Corporation Limited operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 6 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 6 distinct art units and 6 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that each pending matter is being handled independently within the USPTO without overlap in personnel or specific technical groups.
HAILEY, PATRICIA L is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. This lack of concentration means that prosecution outcomes for one application may not necessarily predict the behavior of other examiners in the portfolio across the 6 distinct art units.
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 | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAILEY, PATRICIA L | 1 | 88.1% | +10.1% |
| BOYLE, KARA BRADY | 1 | 61.7% | -10.1% |
| FORRY, COLTON BUSA | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| OYER, ANDREW J | 1 | 79.2% | +16.5% |
| KARIM, ZIAUL | 1 | 81.9% | +21.8% |
| VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 66.7% | +18.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18187091 | OPTIMIZED MULTI-MODEL ELECTRICAL HEATING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREFOR | KARIM, ZIAUL | 22d |
| 18524086 | PROCESS FOR IN-SITU REGENERATION OF SPENT ION EXCHANGE RESIN CATALYST | HAILEY, PATRICIA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18134910 | HYDROPHOBIC FLUORESCENT CARBON QUANTUM DOT FOR MARKER APPLICATION IN HYDROCARBON LIQUIDS AND PROCESS OF PREPARATION THEREOF | OYER, ANDREW J | 61d |
| 18227619 | REUSABLE METAL SUBSTRATES FOR BI-FACIAL PHOTOACTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS FOR SOLAR WATER SPLITTING | FORRY, COLTON BUSA | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18187091 | OPTIMIZED MULTI-MODEL ELECTRICAL HEATING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREFOR | KARIM, ZIAUL | 22d |
| 18134910 | HYDROPHOBIC FLUORESCENT CARBON QUANTUM DOT FOR MARKER APPLICATION IN HYDROCARBON LIQUIDS AND PROCESS OF PREPARATION THEREOF | OYER, ANDREW J | 61d |
| 18524086 | PROCESS FOR IN-SITU REGENERATION OF SPENT ION EXCHANGE RESIN CATALYST | HAILEY, PATRICIA L | — |
| 18159247 | Pressure Vessel For Storing Fluid | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18524086 | PROCESS FOR IN-SITU REGENERATION OF SPENT ION EXCHANGE RESIN CATALYST | HAILEY, PATRICIA L | 1732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18524167 | Cross-linkable Polymers for Fabrication of Biodegradable 3D Hydrogel Scaffold, and Process Thereof | BOYLE, KARA BRADY | 4100 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18227619 | REUSABLE METAL SUBSTRATES FOR BI-FACIAL PHOTOACTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS FOR SOLAR WATER SPLITTING | FORRY, COLTON BUSA | 1711 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18134910 | HYDROPHOBIC FLUORESCENT CARBON QUANTUM DOT FOR MARKER APPLICATION IN HYDROCARBON LIQUIDS AND PROCESS OF PREPARATION THEREOF | OYER, ANDREW J | 1767 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Apr 14, 2023 |
| 18187091 | OPTIMIZED MULTI-MODEL ELECTRICAL HEATING METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREFOR | KARIM, ZIAUL | 2119 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18159247 | Pressure Vessel For Storing Fluid | VOLZ, ELIZABETH J | 3733 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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