Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
14 pending office actions • 7 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nova Chemicals (International) S.A. maintains an extensive presence in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, currently managing 14 pending office actions. This portfolio is spread across 7 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of chemical and material science applications. The company interacts with 12 distinct examiners, which suggests a decentralized prosecution strategy where the majority of matters are handled by different individuals.
CHONG, JASON Y is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This leaves the remaining 14 pending office actions to be distributed among the 12 distinct examiners. For a practitioner, this data shows that the company's intellectual property is subject to a wide variety of examiner interpretations across multiple specialized groups. The use of 7 distinct art units further highlights the technical breadth of the portfolio within the broader chemistry sector. Managing these matters across such a distributed network of examiners requires careful coordination to ensure consistency in prosecution outcomes across the entire portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (36%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHONG, JASON Y | 2 | 73.3% | +18.1% |
| LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 2 | 61.9% | +12.5% |
| CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C | 1 | 72.9% | +9.5% |
| GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1 | 63.7% | +8.7% |
| ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 1 | 78.5% | +28.7% |
| BOSS, WENDY LYNN | 1 | 76.7% | +15.0% |
| BUIE-HATCHER, NICOLE M | 1 | 63.9% | +27.0% |
| DOLETSKI, BLAINE G | 1 | 75.0% | +9.1% |
| LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1 | 73.3% | +16.8% |
| KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1 | 45.9% | +47.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279670 | RECYCLABLE PACKAGE WITH FITMENT | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 12d |
| 18852998 | SHAPED MOVTETAOX AND MOVTENBOX CATALYST WITH HIGH STRENGTH AND ODH PERFORMANCE | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | — |
| 18288751 | INTEGRATION FOR PROCESSING EFFLUENT OF OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION (ODH) REACTOR | DOLETSKI, BLAINE G | — |
| 18550477 | HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITION | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | — |
| 18546109 | PLASTOMERS WITH RAPID CRYSTALLIZATION RATES | DU, SURBHI M | — |
| 18030329 | FIXED BED REACTOR SYSTEM FOR OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION OF ETHANE | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18030164 | HIGH TEMPERATURE AIR SEPARATION MODULE FOR AN ODH COMPLEX | LEUNG, JENNIFER 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18279670 | RECYCLABLE PACKAGE WITH FITMENT | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 12d |
| 18714748 | ALL-PE RECYCLABLE LAMINATE WITH NANOCLAY COATING | BOSS, WENDY LYNN | 61d |
| 18861962 | CATALYSTS FOR OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION | CHONG, JASON Y | — |
| 18861336 | REACTOR SYSTEMS FOR OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION (ODH) OF ETHANE | CHONG, JASON Y | — |
| 18898041 | FILMS FROM RECYCLED POLYETHYLENE | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | — |
| 18690315 | OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYST SYSTEM AND POLYMERIZATION PROCESS | BUIE-HATCHER, NICOLE M | — |
| 18550477 | HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITION | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | — |
| 18030329 | FIXED BED REACTOR SYSTEM FOR OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION OF ETHANE | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 2 |
| 1774 | 2 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1749 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18862788 | REACTOR SYSTEMS FOR OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION (ODH) OF ETHANE | CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18861962 | CATALYSTS FOR OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION | CHONG, JASON Y | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18861336 | REACTOR SYSTEMS FOR OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION (ODH) OF ETHANE | CHONG, JASON Y | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18852998 | SHAPED MOVTETAOX AND MOVTENBOX CATALYST WITH HIGH STRENGTH AND ODH PERFORMANCE | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18898041 | FILMS FROM RECYCLED POLYETHYLENE | ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E | 1787 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18714748 | ALL-PE RECYCLABLE LAMINATE WITH NANOCLAY COATING | BOSS, WENDY LYNN | 1749 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18690315 | OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION CATALYST SYSTEM AND POLYMERIZATION PROCESS | BUIE-HATCHER, NICOLE M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18288751 | INTEGRATION FOR PROCESSING EFFLUENT OF OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION (ODH) REACTOR | DOLETSKI, BLAINE G | 1692 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18550477 | HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITION | LENIHAN, JEFFREY S | 1765 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18279670 | RECYCLABLE PACKAGE WITH FITMENT | KESSLER JR, THOMAS JOSEPH | 1782 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18278972 | CATALYST MATERIALS WITH TUNABLE ACTIVITY | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | 1736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18546109 | PLASTOMERS WITH RAPID CRYSTALLIZATION RATES | DU, SURBHI M | 1765 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18030329 | FIXED BED REACTOR SYSTEM FOR OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION OF ETHANE | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1774 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 18030164 | HIGH TEMPERATURE AIR SEPARATION MODULE FOR AN ODH COMPLEX | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
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