Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Momentive Performance Materials GmbH currently has 5 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These 5 pending matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners. Notably, each of these applications is located in a different art unit, resulting in a total of 5 distinct art units for the portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the company is LIANG, SHIBIN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, with each examiner managing exactly one action. The distribution across 5 distinct art units indicates a very broad technical footprint for the 5 pending office actions within the biotechnology sector.
Practitioners should be aware that interacting with 5 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units requires a highly diversified prosecution strategy. No two pending matters share the same examiner or art unit, which may lead to significant variations in examination styles and outcomes. Monitoring the specific trends in each of the 5 distinct art units will be critical for maintaining a cohesive strategy across the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIANG, SHIBIN | 1 | 62.8% | +17.0% |
| SONG, JIANFENG | 1 | 56.3% | +33.2% |
| SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 1 | 68.1% | +34.5% |
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 68.3% | +34.8% |
| MATTISON, LORI K | 1 | 14.7% | +26.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271169 | ETHER COMPOUNDS AS VOLATILES FOR THE TREATMENT OF AMINO ACID BASED SUBSTRATES, SUCH AS SKIN AND HAIR | SONG, JIANFENG | 49d overdue |
| 17786081 | POLYMERIC FATTY ACID COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF FIBROUS AMINO ACID-BASED SUBSTRATES, ESPECIALLY HAIR | MATTISON, LORI K | 29d |
| 18871192 | PRODUCTION OF PARTS BY MOLDING OR EXTRUSION AND SYSTEM | LIANG, SHIBIN | — |
| 18031480 | NON-CURABLE SILICONE COMPOSITION COMPRISING CARBON BLACK | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18271169 | ETHER COMPOUNDS AS VOLATILES FOR THE TREATMENT OF AMINO ACID BASED SUBSTRATES, SUCH AS SKIN AND HAIR | SONG, JIANFENG | 49d overdue |
| 17910883 | FUNCTIONALIZED SILICA PARTICLES AND THEIR USE | HOU, FRANK S | 32d overdue |
| 17786081 | POLYMERIC FATTY ACID COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF FIBROUS AMINO ACID-BASED SUBSTRATES, ESPECIALLY HAIR | MATTISON, LORI K | 29d |
| 18871192 | PRODUCTION OF PARTS BY MOLDING OR EXTRUSION AND SYSTEM | LIANG, SHIBIN | — |
| 18031480 | NON-CURABLE SILICONE COMPOSITION COMPRISING CARBON BLACK | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18871192 | PRODUCTION OF PARTS BY MOLDING OR EXTRUSION AND SYSTEM | LIANG, SHIBIN | 1741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18271169 | ETHER COMPOUNDS AS VOLATILES FOR THE TREATMENT OF AMINO ACID BASED SUBSTRATES, SUCH AS SKIN AND HAIR | SONG, JIANFENG | 1613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
| 18031480 | NON-CURABLE SILICONE COMPOSITION COMPRISING CARBON BLACK | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 1762 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 17910883 | FUNCTIONALIZED SILICA PARTICLES AND THEIR USE | HOU, FRANK S | 1692 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
| 17786081 | POLYMERIC FATTY ACID COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF FIBROUS AMINO ACID-BASED SUBSTRATES, ESPECIALLY HAIR | MATTISON, LORI K | 1619 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
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