Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Monosol LLC is currently managing 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are widely distributed across 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. MANGOHIG, THOMAS A is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though he is only responsible for 1 pending action. This high level of dispersion across 7 distinct art units indicates a broad technical footprint for the company's research and development efforts.
The distribution of 7 pending office actions across 7 distinct art units indicates a diverse technical footprint for the company's filings. Because each of the 7 distinct examiners is handling exactly 1 pending action, the workload is perfectly balanced across the USPTO. This lack of concentration suggests that prosecution outcomes may vary significantly depending on the specific art unit assigned to each case. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate 7 different sets of examiner preferences and art unit cultures. With no single examiner holding more than 1 pending action, there is no central figure to influence the overall prosecution trajectory of the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 5 (83%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 1 | 20.0% | +24.4% |
| FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1 | 61.6% | +17.2% |
| MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1 | 51.1% | +44.2% |
| HENSON, KATINA N | 1 | 56.6% | +31.9% |
| CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 1 | 52.9% | +21.1% |
| GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1 | 52.3% | +2.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17737946 | WATER-DISPERSIBLE ARTICLE INCLUDING WATER-DISPERSIBLE CORE CONSTRUCTION | HENSON, KATINA N | 46d overdue |
| 18399001 | HYBRID STARCH/PVOH FILMS WITH BIO-CONTENT | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17737946 | WATER-DISPERSIBLE ARTICLE INCLUDING WATER-DISPERSIBLE CORE CONSTRUCTION | HENSON, KATINA N | 46d overdue |
| 17737995 | WATER-DISPERSIBLE ARTICLE INCLUDING WATER-DISPERSIBLE CORE CONSTRUCTION | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 42d overdue |
| 17737969 | SKIN CLEANSING ARTICLE INCLUDING WATER-DISPERSIBLE AND/OR WATER-SOLUBLE CORE SUBSTRATE | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 71d |
| 18399001 | HYBRID STARCH/PVOH FILMS WITH BIO-CONTENT | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | — |
| 18142885 | MULTILAYERED POLYVINYL ALCOHOL FILMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | FIGG, TRAVIS M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18399001 | HYBRID STARCH/PVOH FILMS WITH BIO-CONTENT | MANGOHIG, THOMAS A | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18142885 | MULTILAYERED POLYVINYL ALCOHOL FILMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
| 17737995 | WATER-DISPERSIBLE ARTICLE INCLUDING WATER-DISPERSIBLE CORE CONSTRUCTION | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
| 17737946 | WATER-DISPERSIBLE ARTICLE INCLUDING WATER-DISPERSIBLE CORE CONSTRUCTION | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
| 17737969 | SKIN CLEANSING ARTICLE INCLUDING WATER-DISPERSIBLE AND/OR WATER-SOLUBLE CORE SUBSTRATE | CONIGLIO, AUDREA JUNE BUCKLEY | 1617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | May 05, 2022 |
| 15796516 | Water-Soluble Film with Low Coefficient of Friction | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2017 |
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