Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
15 pending office actions • 10 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lotte Chemical Corporation has 13 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 12 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner coverage with repeated assignments across the art units. The docket therefore requires coordination across both individual responses and recurring technical examination settings.
SHUKLA, KRUPA is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner provides a limited focal point for related matter review, while the wider docket remains distributed. Counsel should track recurring art-unit issues and maintain consistent positions without assuming that arguments will transfer unchanged between matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 10 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (27%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHUKLA, KRUPA | 2 | 15.2% | +22.5% |
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.2% | +26.8% |
| PAGAN, JAVIER A | 1 | 69.0% | +23.9% |
| STANLEY, JANE L | 1 | 58.2% | +29.2% |
| RAJA, JAANZEB CHAANGEZ | 1 | 78.8% | -3.5% |
| LISTVOYB, GREGORY | 1 | 66.9% | +29.4% |
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.6% |
| BOSS, WENDY LYNN | 1 | 76.7% | +15.0% |
| SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 1 | 84.7% | +17.4% |
| LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1 | 63.7% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565661 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TWO-DIMENSIONAL NICKEL SILICATE MOLECULAR SIEVE CATALYST FOR DRY REFORMING OF METHANE AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL NICKEL SILICATE MOLECULAR SIEVE CATALYST FOR DRY REFORMING OF METHANE PRODUCED BY SAME METHOD | SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712394 | High-Pressure Vessel Having Impact-Resistant Stiffener Member | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 12d |
| 19230775 | Boss for Hydrogen Tank | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| 18849698 | Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Article Manufactured by the Same | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| 18713348 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING BLUE HYDROGEN | RAJA, JAANZEB CHAANGEZ | — |
| 18611452 | MOLDED PRODUCT MANUFACTURED FROM THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712394 | High-Pressure Vessel Having Impact-Resistant Stiffener Member | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 12d |
| 18709443 | POLYPROPYLENE-BASED MULTILAYER FILM FOR CELL POUCH | BOSS, WENDY LYNN | 19d |
| 19230775 | Boss for Hydrogen Tank | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| 18896538 | PRESSURE VESSEL | PAGAN, JAVIER A | — |
| 18849698 | Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Article Manufactured by the Same | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| 18724315 | Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Article Manufactured From Same | STANLEY, JANE L | — |
| 18713418 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CHEMICALLY RECYCLED PET | LISTVOYB, GREGORY | — |
| 18611452 | MOLDED PRODUCT MANUFACTURED FROM THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 3 |
| 3733 | 2 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19230775 | Boss for Hydrogen Tank | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 3733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 18896538 | PRESSURE VESSEL | PAGAN, JAVIER A | 3735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18849698 | Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Article Manufactured by the Same | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18724315 | Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Article Manufactured From Same | STANLEY, JANE L | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18713348 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING BLUE HYDROGEN | RAJA, JAANZEB CHAANGEZ | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18713418 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CHEMICALLY RECYCLED PET | LISTVOYB, GREGORY | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18712394 | High-Pressure Vessel Having Impact-Resistant Stiffener Member | KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 3733 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18709443 | POLYPROPYLENE-BASED MULTILAYER FILM FOR CELL POUCH | BOSS, WENDY LYNN | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18611452 | MOLDED PRODUCT MANUFACTURED FROM THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18565661 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TWO-DIMENSIONAL NICKEL SILICATE MOLECULAR SIEVE CATALYST FOR DRY REFORMING OF METHANE AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL NICKEL SILICATE MOLECULAR SIEVE CATALYST FOR DRY REFORMING OF METHANE PRODUCED BY SAME METHOD | SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18255055 | POLYESTER POLYOL AND POLYURETHANE PREPARED THEREFROM | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 82d | Pending | May 30, 2023 |
| 18039057 | Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Article Using Same | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18039039 | Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Product Manufactured Therefrom | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2023 |
| 18010048 | Polyphosphonate Resin Composition and Molded Product Manufactured Therefrom | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 17626919 | Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Product Manufactured Therefrom | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialLotte Chemical Corporation has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 14 examiners.
Krupa Shukla has the most, with 2 of Lotte Chemical Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
