Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ineos Styrolution Group GmbH has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This high level of dispersion among examiners suggests that each of the 4 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual. However, the concentration in 2 distinct art units indicates that these examiners are grouped within two specific administrative areas of the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SALAMON, PETER A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending actions, the workload is evenly distributed with each examiner handling exactly 1 matter. This means that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's current pending portfolio. For the applicant, this provides a diversified risk profile, as the success of the 4 pending office actions is not tied to the decisions of a single individual.
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALAMON, PETER A | 1 | 86.3% | +5.8% |
| FOSS, DAVID ROGER | 1 | 74.0% | +34.5% |
| RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 72.7% | +11.8% |
| ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 1 | 48.9% | +37.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691986 | ASA-COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS WITH INCREASED TRANSMITTANCE AND PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION THEREOF | SALAMON, PETER A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569507 | HIGH CLARITY AND DUCTILE MOLDING COMPOSITION COMPRISING A SMMA COPOLYMER AND A SBC-BLOCK COPOLYMER | FOSS, DAVID ROGER | — |
| 17997600 | THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER COMPOSITION WITH REDUCED MIGRATION OF STABILISERS | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | — |
| 17767299 | THERMOPLASTIC RECYCLING MOLDING COMPOSITION BASED ON RECYCLED ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE COPOLYMERS AND PROCESS FOR ITS PREPARATION | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18691986 | ASA-COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS WITH INCREASED TRANSMITTANCE AND PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION THEREOF | SALAMON, PETER A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18569507 | HIGH CLARITY AND DUCTILE MOLDING COMPOSITION COMPRISING A SMMA COPOLYMER AND A SBC-BLOCK COPOLYMER | FOSS, DAVID ROGER | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 17997600 | THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER COMPOSITION WITH REDUCED MIGRATION OF STABILISERS | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 17767299 | THERMOPLASTIC RECYCLING MOLDING COMPOSITION BASED ON RECYCLED ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE COPOLYMERS AND PROCESS FOR ITS PREPARATION | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2022 |
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