Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
17 pending office actions • 10 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Momentive Performance Materials Inc. currently manages 17 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed among 14 distinct examiners and 10 distinct art units, showing the prosecution landscape. The busiest examiner, MOORE, MARGARET G, is responsible for 3 pending office actions.
The 3 pending office actions assigned to MOORE, MARGARET G are part of the company's total volume of 17 pending office actions. The remaining actions are split among the other distinct examiners. This distribution across 10 distinct art units suggests that the company's Chemistry & Materials innovations span several specialized sub-fields. Practitioners should coordinate across these 10 distinct art units and 14 distinct examiners to ensure consistent arguments across the portfolio. This variety in examiners and units requires a strategy that accounts for multiple perspectives within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 7 (41%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOORE, MARGARET G | 3 | 68.0% | +15.2% |
| BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 2 | 44.4% | +52.7% |
| OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1 | 50.0% | +61.5% |
| CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE | 1 | 79.8% | +24.3% |
| RIOJA, MELISSA A | 1 | 49.5% | +53.8% |
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1 | 21.2% | +37.0% |
| MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1 | 58.5% | +16.0% |
| STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1 | 82.0% | +12.0% |
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 68.3% | +34.8% |
| EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI | 1 | 70.0% | +14.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265106 | CURABLE SILICONE COATING COMPRISING A NON-ORGANO TIN CATALYST | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 66d overdue |
| 17926842 | PROCESS FOR THE STEPWISE SYNTHESIS OF SILAHYDROCARBONS | HOU, FRANK S | 5d |
| 17690104 | SILICON-BASED COMPOSITIONS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | ZIMMER, MARC S | 22d |
| 18206265 | CONDENSATION CURE SILICONE ADHESIVE | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 60d |
| 18618683 | POLYESTER ELASTOMERS FROM DI-CARBOXYLIC ACID OR TRI-CARBOXYLIC ACID, MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID, AND POLYOL FOR COSMETIC AND PERSONAL CARE APPLICATIONS | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | — |
| 18598241 | DIRECT SYNTHESIS OF ALKENYLHALOSILANES | CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE | — |
| 18381413 | POLYISOCYANURATE FOAM-FORMING COMPOSITIONS, POLYISOCYANURATE FOAMS, INSULATED ASSEMBLIES, AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | RIOJA, MELISSA A | — |
| 18278437 | THERMAL GEL COMPOSITION | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18265106 | CURABLE SILICONE COATING COMPRISING A NON-ORGANO TIN CATALYST | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 66d overdue |
| 17902184 | AQUEOUS SURFACE TREATING COMPOSITION | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 32d overdue |
| 17926842 | PROCESS FOR THE STEPWISE SYNTHESIS OF SILAHYDROCARBONS | HOU, FRANK S | 5d |
| 18206265 | CONDENSATION CURE SILICONE ADHESIVE | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 60d |
| 18618683 | POLYESTER ELASTOMERS FROM DI-CARBOXYLIC ACID OR TRI-CARBOXYLIC ACID, MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID, AND POLYOL FOR COSMETIC AND PERSONAL CARE APPLICATIONS | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | — |
| 18598241 | DIRECT SYNTHESIS OF ALKENYLHALOSILANES | CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE | — |
| 18381413 | POLYISOCYANURATE FOAM-FORMING COMPOSITIONS, POLYISOCYANURATE FOAMS, INSULATED ASSEMBLIES, AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | RIOJA, MELISSA A | — |
| 18278437 | THERMAL GEL COMPOSITION | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 4 |
| 1762 | 3 |
| 1766 | 2 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18618683 | POLYESTER ELASTOMERS FROM DI-CARBOXYLIC ACID OR TRI-CARBOXYLIC ACID, MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID, AND POLYOL FOR COSMETIC AND PERSONAL CARE APPLICATIONS | OLSEN, KAELEIGH ELIZABETH | 1619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18598241 | DIRECT SYNTHESIS OF ALKENYLHALOSILANES | CUTLIFF, YATE KAI RENE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18381413 | POLYISOCYANURATE FOAM-FORMING COMPOSITIONS, POLYISOCYANURATE FOAMS, INSULATED ASSEMBLIES, AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF | RIOJA, MELISSA A | 1764 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18278437 | THERMAL GEL COMPOSITION | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18206265 | CONDENSATION CURE SILICONE ADHESIVE | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1767 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 18265106 | CURABLE SILICONE COATING COMPRISING A NON-ORGANO TIN CATALYST | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1766 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18128662 | SELF-CATALYZING SILICONE COMPOSITION, ADHESIVES FORMED THEREFROM, AND A METHOD OF MAKING SAME | MOORE, MARGARET G | 1765 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18128688 | HYDROPHILICALLY MODIFIED SILICONE PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVE | MOORE, MARGARET G | 1765 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 17926842 | PROCESS FOR THE STEPWISE SYNTHESIS OF SILAHYDROCARBONS | HOU, FRANK S | 1692 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17998006 | COSMETIC PRODUCT AND MAKING-UP METHOD | MOORE, MARGARET G | 1765 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17938634 | SILICA-REINFORCED RUBBER COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM | EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI | 1762 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
| 17902184 | AQUEOUS SURFACE TREATING COMPOSITION | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17907869 | CATALYSTS FOR THE FORMATION OF POLYURETHANES | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1763 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
| 17795702 | MOISTURE-CURABLE NON-YELLOWING CLEAR COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOFROM | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
| 17690104 | SILICON-BASED COMPOSITIONS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | ZIMMER, MARC S | 1765 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 09, 2022 |
| 17560026 | ELASTOMER GEL FROM EPOXIDIZED VEGETABLE OIL AND USES THEREOF | YU, HONG | 1614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2021 |
| 17417417 | CURABLE SILICONE-BASED COMPOSITIONS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF | RODD, CHRISTOPHER M | 1766 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Jun 23, 2021 |
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