Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc.

8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
8
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LIU, ZHEN 2 42.0% +45.8%
NERANGIS, VICKEY M 1 56.3% +28.9%
PIPIC, ALMA 1 54.5% +55.6%
WORRELL, KEVIN 1 11.7% -6.0%
RONEY, CELESTE A 1 62.3% +18.0%
YU, HONG 1 31.2% +5.7%
COFFA, SERGIO 1 61.0% +33.3%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17623955 BICOMPONENT THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE FIBERS AND FABRICS MADE THEREFROM WORRELL, KEVIN 44d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17635815 DRUG-POLYMER AMORPHOUS SOLID DISPERSIONS USING LINEAR POLY(ACRYLIC ACID) POLYMERS PIPIC, ALMA 66d overdue
17639985 THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE COMPOSITION LIU, ZHEN 17d overdue
17267652 COMPOUNDS USEFUL FOR THE TREATMENT AND/OR CARE OF THE SKIN, HAIR, NAILS AND/OR MUCOUS MEMBRANES COFFA, SERGIO 14d
18266950 ANTIFOG COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS NERANGIS, VICKEY M 20d
17615151 SOLVENT BORNE THERMOSET POLYAMIDE URETHANE AND/OR UREA BASED COATINGS LIU, ZHEN 22d
17489137 Extended Release Highly Loaded Drug Compositions RONEY, CELESTE A 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1767 2
1763 1
1617 1
1789 1
1612 1
1614 1
1658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18266950 ANTIFOG COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS NERANGIS, VICKEY M 1763 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jun 13, 2023
17639985 THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE COMPOSITION LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2022
17635815 DRUG-POLYMER AMORPHOUS SOLID DISPERSIONS USING LINEAR POLY(ACRYLIC ACID) POLYMERS PIPIC, ALMA 1617 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Feb 16, 2022
17623955 BICOMPONENT THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE FIBERS AND FABRICS MADE THEREFROM WORRELL, KEVIN 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Dec 30, 2021
17615151 SOLVENT BORNE THERMOSET POLYAMIDE URETHANE AND/OR UREA BASED COATINGS LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 30, 2021
17489137 Extended Release Highly Loaded Drug Compositions RONEY, CELESTE A 1612 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Sep 29, 2021
17439175 ENHANCED SILICONE DEPOSITION COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD THEREFOR YU, HONG 1614 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 14, 2021
17267652 COMPOUNDS USEFUL FOR THE TREATMENT AND/OR CARE OF THE SKIN, HAIR, NAILS AND/OR MUCOUS MEMBRANES COFFA, SERGIO 1658 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Feb 10, 2021

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