Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innospec Limited has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 3 examiners but 1 art unit, indicating concentration in one technical examination unit with repeated examiner assignments.
OLADAPO, TAIWO is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The examiner-level distribution is narrower than the pending-action total, so at least some examiners handle multiple matters. That makes examiner-specific review relevant when assessing recurring objections or response themes.
The single art-unit assignment provides a common technical setting for the docket. Counsel can use that shared setting to coordinate prosecution strategy, while still tracking each of the 6 pending actions independently.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 2 | 74.4% | +2.6% |
| OLADAPO, TAIWO | 2 | 53.2% | +11.8% |
| HINES, LATOSHA D | 2 | 51.4% | +21.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859461 | USE AND METHOD | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 62d |
| 18859441 | USE AND METHOD | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859461 | USE AND METHOD | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 62d |
| 18394511 | COMPOSITION, METHOD AND USE | HINES, LATOSHA D | 76d |
| 18394507 | COMPOSITION, METHOD AND USE | HINES, LATOSHA D | — |
| 17866260 | Compositions, and Methods and Uses Relating Thereto | OLADAPO, TAIWO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859441 | USE AND METHOD | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18859448 | USE AND METHOD | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18859461 | USE AND METHOD | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1771 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18394511 | COMPOSITION, METHOD AND USE | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18394507 | COMPOSITION, METHOD AND USE | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 17866260 | Compositions, and Methods and Uses Relating Thereto | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialInnospec Limited has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Cephia D Toomer has the most, with 2 of Innospec Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
