Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kellogg Brown & Root LLC is managing 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a moderate level of technical and administrative variety in the company's current prosecution, as the matters are being reviewed by different personnel in multiple office sections. The presence of 4 pending office actions shows a steady volume of intellectual property work in the chemistry sector.
The busiest examiner, FADHEL, ALI Z, holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given the total of 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently responsible for exactly 1 action. This balanced workload is divided across the 2 distinct art units involved. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy for the 4 pending office actions must be individualized for each examiner. While the workload is evenly distributed, the involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's filings may cover different specialized areas within the Chemistry & Materials technology area, requiring a flexible approach to office interactions.
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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FADHEL, ALI Z | 1 | 76.7% | +8.8% |
| TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1 | 74.4% | +2.5% |
| BOYER, RANDY | 1 | 70.4% | +8.2% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 78.2% | +22.2% |
| YOUNG, NATASHA E | 1 | 83.0% | +9.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898338 | Method for Treating Hydrocarbon Effluent from Hydrothermal Liquification of Plastic Waste | FADHEL, ALI Z | — |
| 18336931 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIMITING A GAS PLANT | BOYER, RANDY | — |
| 18336927 | AMMONIA DISSOCIATION PROCESS | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| 18086786 | ELECTRIFICATION OF HEAT SUPPLY TO FLUIDIZED REGENERATION SYSTEM | YOUNG, NATASHA E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18336927 | AMMONIA DISSOCIATION PROCESS | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898338 | Method for Treating Hydrocarbon Effluent from Hydrothermal Liquification of Plastic Waste | FADHEL, ALI Z | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18786224 | 100% HYDROGEN-FIRED LIQUID CRACKING FURNACE | TOOMER, CEPHIA D | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18336931 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIMITING A GAS PLANT | BOYER, RANDY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18336927 | AMMONIA DISSOCIATION PROCESS | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18086786 | ELECTRIFICATION OF HEAT SUPPLY TO FLUIDIZED REGENERATION SYSTEM | YOUNG, NATASHA E | 1774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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