Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Lotte Chemical Corporation

13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
3
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
13
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (92%)
§102 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

11
Life Sciences
85% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
15% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SHUKLA, KRUPA 2 14.5% +22.6%
BUTTNER, DAVID J 1 63.9% +4.1%
JENNESS, NATHAN JAY 1 53.8% +37.8%
BOSS, WENDY LYNN 1 80.6% +8.6%
MCFALL, NICHOLAS A 1 85.8% +11.5%
SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1 66.7% +50.0%
LEONARD, MICHAEL L 1 63.7% +7.9%
LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN 1
CHEN, PO-CHIH 1 74.7% +13.9%
LAIOS, MARIA J 1 68.5% +18.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18519374 DOOR MODULE PLATE FOR VEHICLE MCFALL, NICHOLAS A 5d
18709443 POLYPROPYLENE-BASED MULTILAYER FILM FOR CELL POUCH BOSS, WENDY LYNN 19d

Hard Cases (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18269614 Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Product Manufactured Therefrom SHUKLA, KRUPA 79d overdue
18574440 Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Article Formed Therefrom SHUKLA, KRUPA 34d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18034556 ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY PACK CASE COMPRISING CONTINUOUS FIBERS AND DISCONTINUOUS FIBERS LAIOS, MARIA J 98d overdue
18269614 Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Product Manufactured Therefrom SHUKLA, KRUPA 79d overdue
18255635 CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION CATALYST COMPRISING MODIFIED ZIF-BASED COMPOUND, AND CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION ELECTRODE COMPRISING SAME SYLVESTER, KEVIN 45d overdue
18519374 DOOR MODULE PLATE FOR VEHICLE MCFALL, NICHOLAS A 5d
18712394 High-Pressure Vessel Having Impact-Resistant Stiffener Member JENNESS, NATHAN JAY 12d
18254247 METHOD OF PREPARING HETEROGENEOUS LINEAR CARBONATE USING ACIDIC ION EXCHANGE RESIN CHEN, PO-CHIH 26d
18574440 Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Article Formed Therefrom SHUKLA, KRUPA 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1787 2
1763 2
1765 1
3733 1
1749 1
3644 1
1794 1
1788 1
1621 1
1727 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18944607 MOLDED ARTICLE HAVING REDUCED BIREFRINGENCE BUTTNER, DAVID J 1765 §102 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Nov 12, 2024
18712394 High-Pressure Vessel Having Impact-Resistant Stiffener Member JENNESS, NATHAN JAY 3733 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending May 22, 2024
18709443 POLYPROPYLENE-BASED MULTILAYER FILM FOR CELL POUCH BOSS, WENDY LYNN 1749 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending May 10, 2024
18574440 Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Article Formed Therefrom SHUKLA, KRUPA 1787 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18519374 DOOR MODULE PLATE FOR VEHICLE MCFALL, NICHOLAS A 3644 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Nov 27, 2023
18269614 Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Product Manufactured Therefrom SHUKLA, KRUPA 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Jun 26, 2023
18255635 CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION CATALYST COMPRISING MODIFIED ZIF-BASED COMPOUND, AND CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION ELECTRODE COMPRISING SAME SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18255055 POLYESTER POLYOL AND POLYURETHANE PREPARED THEREFROM LEONARD, MICHAEL L 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 82d Pending May 30, 2023
18255019 METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTROLYTE FOR VANADIUM REDOX FLOW BATTERY LOVASZ, MYLES ALAN 1788 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 30, 2023
18254247 METHOD OF PREPARING HETEROGENEOUS LINEAR CARBONATE USING ACIDIC ION EXCHANGE RESIN CHEN, PO-CHIH 1621 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending May 24, 2023
18034556 ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY PACK CASE COMPRISING CONTINUOUS FIBERS AND DISCONTINUOUS FIBERS LAIOS, MARIA J 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 98d overdue Pending Apr 28, 2023
18032942 Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Article Manufactured Using Same USELDING, JOHN E 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Apr 20, 2023
18083788 Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Article Produced Therefrom BUTCHER, ROBERT T 1764 §103 Final Rejection 86d Pending Dec 19, 2022

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