Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ingevity UK Ltd. focuses on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions currently active. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is managing exactly 1 action. This means the workload is distributed across the 2 distinct examiners.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the pending applications cover different technical sub-fields. Practitioners must manage 2 separate examiner relationships. With 2 pending office actions, the portfolio is in a low-volume phase. The lack of overlap between examiners means that each action should be treated as an independent matter. This distribution requires a strategy that accounts for different examiner preferences across the 2 distinct art units. The reliance on 2 distinct examiners, including NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS, ensures a diverse review process.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS | 1 | 63.7% | -5.2% |
| LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1 | 63.7% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18451344 | NOVEL POLYURETHANE OR POLYURETHANE-UREA COMPOSITION WITH ENHANCED LOW TEMPERATURE PERFORMANCE | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 121d overdue |
| 18538924 | POLYCAPROLACTONE POLYOLS, POLYURETHANES, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18538924 | POLYCAPROLACTONE POLYOLS, POLYURETHANES, AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS | 1762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18451344 | NOVEL POLYURETHANE OR POLYURETHANE-UREA COMPOSITION WITH ENHANCED LOW TEMPERATURE PERFORMANCE | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 121d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialIngevity UK Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Patrick Dennis Niland has the most, with 1 of Ingevity UK Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
