Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
13 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
NOF Corporation currently has 13 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 13 actions are assigned to 13 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. These applications are spread across 9 distinct art units, showing a level of technical dispersion within the patent office.
MELLOTT, JAMES M is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are only handling 1 pending office action. Because there are 13 distinct examiners for 13 pending actions, the workload is distributed with no examiner overlap. The 9 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's Chemistry & Materials portfolio covers several different specialized chemical or material classifications. Practitioners must manage 13 different examiners across 9 art units, which may lead to varied prosecution experiences despite the shared technology area.
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 | 6 (46%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 3 (23%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (23%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1 | 51.1% | +44.2% |
| PALLAY, MICHAEL B | 1 | 55.8% | +34.0% |
| HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | 1 | 51.4% | +45.0% |
| OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1 | 52.9% | +11.8% |
| BOYLE, ROBERT C | 1 | 69.7% | -2.7% |
| ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 1 | 52.4% | +26.7% |
| LING, DORIS | 1 | 25.0% | +27.3% |
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.0% | -4.5% |
| FROST, ANTHONY J | 1 | 52.7% | +20.1% |
| JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573698 | CONTACT LENS AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAID LENS | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18458354 | REACTION COMPOSITION FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION AND NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION METHOD USING SAME | JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 27d |
| 18869004 | OIL FOR COSMETIC AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18695576 | POLYMER FOR WATER-REPELLENT, WATER-REPELLENT COMPOSITION, AND WATER REPELLENT-TREATED PRODUCT | BOYLE, ROBERT C | — |
| 18683446 | ANTIFOGGING AGENT COMPOSITION, AND ANTIFOGGING ARTICLE | LING, DORIS | — |
| 18263416 | SENSITIZER FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION, COMPOSITION FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION, AND TEST KIT | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702370 | LUBRICANT COMPOSITION | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 29d |
| 19132073 | FILM-FORMING AUXILIARY AGENT FOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, COATING SOLUTION FOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, METAL OXIDE FILM, AND FILM-FORMING METHOD FOR METAL OXIDE FILM | MELLOTT, JAMES M | — |
| 18869004 | OIL FOR COSMETIC AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18913388 | KETAL-TYPE RELEASABLE POLYOXYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF AND KETAL-TYPE RELEASABLE POLYOXYETHYLENE CONJUGATE | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — |
| 18683917 | OIL FOR COSMETICS, AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | — |
| 18683446 | ANTIFOGGING AGENT COMPOSITION, AND ANTIFOGGING ARTICLE | LING, DORIS | — |
| 18281874 | CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION FOR USE IN SEALING MATERIAL FOR FILM LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, AND FILM LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL HAVING END SEALED BY SAID CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION | FROST, ANTHONY J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19132073 | FILM-FORMING AUXILIARY AGENT FOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, COATING SOLUTION FOR CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, METAL OXIDE FILM, AND FILM-FORMING METHOD FOR METAL OXIDE FILM | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1759 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18869004 | OIL FOR COSMETIC AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18913388 | KETAL-TYPE RELEASABLE POLYOXYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF AND KETAL-TYPE RELEASABLE POLYOXYETHYLENE CONJUGATE | HERNANDEZ, JACKSON J | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18702370 | LUBRICANT COMPOSITION | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18695576 | POLYMER FOR WATER-REPELLENT, WATER-REPELLENT COMPOSITION, AND WATER REPELLENT-TREATED PRODUCT | BOYLE, ROBERT C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18683917 | OIL FOR COSMETICS, AND COSMETIC CONTAINING SAME | ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER | 1612 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18683446 | ANTIFOGGING AGENT COMPOSITION, AND ANTIFOGGING ARTICLE | LING, DORIS | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18573698 | CONTACT LENS AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAID LENS | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18281874 | CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION FOR USE IN SEALING MATERIAL FOR FILM LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, AND FILM LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL HAVING END SEALED BY SAID CURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION | FROST, ANTHONY J | 1782 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18458354 | REACTION COMPOSITION FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION AND NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION METHOD USING SAME | JONES, CHRISTINE MICHELLE | 1682 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18263416 | SENSITIZER FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION, COMPOSITION FOR NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION, AND TEST KIT | KARST, DAVID THOMAS | 1767 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18267163 | RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR HOT AIR CROSS-LINKING, CROSS-LINKED RUBBER, AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF CROSS-LINKED RUBBER | AMATO, ELIZABETH KATHRYN | 1762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 18176420 | ALKYLENE OXIDE DERIVATIVES, WETTING AGENT, SOLUBILIZING AGENT, AND SOLUBILIZING COMPOSITION | WARD, PAUL V | 1622 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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