Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Merck Millipore Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is divided between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, which points to a broader technical range for the pending applications. HUANG, RYAN is the busiest examiner in the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This means the 2 total pending office actions are split among the examiners involved.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units requires the applicant to adapt to different examination cultures and prior art landscapes. Since HUANG, RYAN handles 1 busiest examiner pending action, the other pending matter is being processed by a different examiner in a separate unit. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners suggests that the company is pursuing diverse innovations within the chemistry sector. Managing 2 pending office actions in this manner necessitates a tailored approach for each of the 2 distinct art units to ensure successful prosecution outcomes.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, RYAN | 1 | 52.9% | +31.1% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 78.2% | +22.2% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779054 | METHODS FOR COUPLING A LIGAND TO A COMPOSITE MATERIAL | HUANG, RYAN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17642322 | SUPERCRITICAL DRYING OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC MEDIA | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 15d |
| 17779054 | METHODS FOR COUPLING A LIGAND TO A COMPOSITE MATERIAL | HUANG, RYAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17779054 | METHODS FOR COUPLING A LIGAND TO A COMPOSITE MATERIAL | HUANG, RYAN | 1777 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
| 17642322 | SUPERCRITICAL DRYING OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC MEDIA | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Mar 11, 2022 |
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