Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Newlight Technologies Inc. has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 6 examiners across 4 art units, so each action has a distinct examiner while some art units contain multiple matters. This distribution supports technical grouping without reducing the need for examiner-specific prosecution management.
CHEN, VIVIAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries more than that assignment, leaving the docket evenly distributed at the examiner level. Counsel should build consistent chemistry and materials positions across the portfolio, then tailor claim amendments and responses to each examination record.
The four art-unit settings provide a practical framework for organizing prior-art review and recurring disclosure issues. Because the examiner assignments are separate, centralized docket control and clear matter-level ownership remain important for maintaining consistency and meeting response obligations.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.6% | +28.5% |
| XU, QING | 1 | 50.9% | +55.2% |
| KAHN, RACHEL | 1 | 27.9% | +17.3% |
| BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1 | 73.5% | +32.6% |
| ZIMMER, MARC S | 1 | 79.4% | +16.1% |
| HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1 | 67.2% | +41.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014727 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE-BASED COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 111d overdue |
| 18526814 | RENEWABLE AND SUSTAINABLE PROCESS FOR EXTRACTION OF PHA FROM MICROBIAL BIOMASS | KAHN, RACHEL | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014727 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE-BASED COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 111d overdue |
| 18276832 | COMPOSITION | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 2d overdue |
| 18275794 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF A HIGHLY FLEXIBLE PHA SHEET | ZIMMER, MARC S | 5d |
| 18865891 | PELLET, PELLET MANUFACTURING METHOD, COMPOSITION/MOLDED BODY MANUFACTURING METHOD USING PELLET, AND PELLET MANUFACTURING COMPOSITION | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| 18759101 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE PRODUCTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SAME | XU, QING | — |
| 18526814 | RENEWABLE AND SUSTAINABLE PROCESS FOR EXTRACTION OF PHA FROM MICROBIAL BIOMASS | KAHN, RACHEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 3 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1656 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865891 | PELLET, PELLET MANUFACTURING METHOD, COMPOSITION/MOLDED BODY MANUFACTURING METHOD USING PELLET, AND PELLET MANUFACTURING COMPOSITION | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18759101 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE PRODUCTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SAME | XU, QING | 1656 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18526814 | RENEWABLE AND SUSTAINABLE PROCESS FOR EXTRACTION OF PHA FROM MICROBIAL BIOMASS | KAHN, RACHEL | 1766 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18276832 | COMPOSITION | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1766 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2023 |
| 18275794 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF A HIGHLY FLEXIBLE PHA SHEET | ZIMMER, MARC S | 1765 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18014727 | POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE-BASED COMPOSITIONS AND ARTICLES MADE THEREFROM | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1766 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 111d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNewlight Technologies Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Vivian Chen has the most, with 1 of Newlight Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
