Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lotte Chemical Corporation manages a portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 15 pending office actions. These 15 pending office actions are distributed across 11 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's filings are reviewed by multiple specialized groups. The prosecution involves 14 distinct examiners.
SHUKLA, KRUPA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. These 2 busiest examiner pending office actions are a part of the total workload. The number of 14 distinct examiners is higher than the 11 distinct art units, which means some art units have multiple examiners assigned to the company's cases. The Chemistry & Materials technology area is the primary focus for these matters.
Practitioners should observe that SHUKLA, KRUPA manages a portion of the pending office actions. With 11 distinct art units involved, the company's intellectual property strategy is spread across several technical niches within the patent office. The involvement of 14 distinct examiners suggests that the company must navigate a variety of individual examiner perspectives.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 8 (57%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (29%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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% | +22.6% |
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.1% | +26.7% |
| KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 1 | 16.2% | +21.4% |
| PAGAN, JAVIER A | 1 | 68.9% | +24.0% |
| STANLEY, JANE L | 1 | 58.4% | +29.5% |
| KIRSCH, ANDREW THOMAS | 1 | 50.6% | +34.4% |
| BOSS, WENDY LYNN | 1 | 76.7% | +15.0% |
| SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 1 | 86.2% | +15.8% |
| LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1 | 63.7% | +8.3% |
| DICUS, TAMRA | 1 | 30.5% | +21.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18944607 | MOLDED ARTICLE HAVING REDUCED BIREFRINGENCE | KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 15d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18944607 | MOLDED ARTICLE HAVING REDUCED BIREFRINGENCE | KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 15d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18611452 | MOLDED PRODUCT MANUFACTURED FROM THERMOPLASTIC RESIN COMPOSITION | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 3 |
| 3733 | 2 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1621 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1767 | 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 |
| 18944607 | MOLDED ARTICLE HAVING REDUCED BIREFRINGENCE | KELLEY, HEIDI RIVIERE | 1765 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 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 |
| 18254094 | METHOD OF PREPARING HETEROGENEOUS LINEAR CARBONATE ADOPTING CATALYTIC FILTERING | YOO, SUN JAE | 1621 | — | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18010048 | Polyphosphonate Resin Composition and Molded Product Manufactured Therefrom | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 1766 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 17620877 | Thermoplastic Resin Composition and Molded Product Using Same | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2021 |
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