Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Indorama Ventures Public Company Ltd. maintains 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The limited scope of current activity suggests a highly targeted prosecution phase for the company's material science innovations. With only 1 pending office action, the company can focus its legal strategy on the specific technical requirements of the assigned art unit without the distraction of multiple concurrent filings.
MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since this represents the only active office action for the company, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions with this specific examiner and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should prioritize direct communication with this examiner to resolve any outstanding issues, as the outcome of this single case will define the immediate success of the company's patent efforts in the chemistry sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 53.9% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18272324 | Biologically Degradable MULTI-COMPONENT POLYMER FIBRES | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18272324 | Biologically Degradable MULTI-COMPONENT POLYMER FIBRES | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18272324 | Biologically Degradable MULTI-COMPONENT POLYMER FIBRES | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
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