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 • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Infineum International Limited has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The use of 2 art units for 4 actions indicates a concentration of technical subject matter within specific divisions of the USPTO. This structure suggests that while the pending office actions are being reviewed by different individuals, they likely share common technical themes related to chemistry and materials.
MCAVOY, ELLEN M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners managing 4 pending actions, the prosecution workload is distributed evenly across the 2 art units involved. This means that no single examiner has a dominant role in the company's current pending portfolio. Practitioners must coordinate across 4 distinct examiners to ensure consistent arguments are maintained within the 2 art units handling the Chemistry & Materials applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1 | 72.8% | +8.7% |
| OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1 | 52.9% | +11.8% |
| ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1 | 59.9% | +13.6% |
| NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1 | 56.6% | +29.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943221 | Lubricant Compositions Containing Low Phosphorus and Low Sulphated Ash | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | — |
| 18480571 | Functionalized C4 to C5 Olefin Polymers and Lubricant Compositions Containing Such | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924430 | Lubricant Compositions Containing High C9 Disubstituted Diphenylamine Antioxidant Content | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 22d |
| 18738509 | Catalytic Anodes and Processes for Use in Electro-chlorination-2 | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | — |
| 18480571 | Functionalized C4 to C5 Olefin Polymers and Lubricant Compositions Containing Such | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 2 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18943221 | Lubricant Compositions Containing Low Phosphorus and Low Sulphated Ash | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18924430 | Lubricant Compositions Containing High C9 Disubstituted Diphenylamine Antioxidant Content | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18738509 | Catalytic Anodes and Processes for Use in Electro-chlorination-2 | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18480571 | Functionalized C4 to C5 Olefin Polymers and Lubricant Compositions Containing Such | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
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