Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Novamont S P A has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters span 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, indicating broad distribution across the examining organization rather than a single recurring assignment.
WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than that recorded portion of the workload, so prosecution strategy should be organized by application and examiner-specific issues.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1 | 86.3% | -20.1% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.5% | +22.5% |
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 45.5% | +33.7% |
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 47.5% | +41.3% |
| SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 1 | 68.5% | +26.7% |
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.3% | +16.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714593 | 1,3-BUTANEDIOL PURIFIED FROM A MIXTURE OF DIOLS | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004684 | ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS OF WASTE CELLULOSE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005414 | REUSE OF BIOPLASTICS IN POLYMERISATION | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 100d overdue |
| 18258816 | HIGH-DISINTEGRATION MULTILAYER BIODEGRADABLE FILM | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 66d overdue |
| 17996233 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MOLDED ITEMS | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 26d overdue |
| 18004684 | ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS OF WASTE CELLULOSE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 9d |
| 17788419 | POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR FILMS HAVING IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND DEGRADABILITY | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18714593 | 1,3-BUTANEDIOL PURIFIED FROM A MIXTURE OF DIOLS | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1692 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18258816 | HIGH-DISINTEGRATION MULTILAYER BIODEGRADABLE FILM | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18005414 | REUSE OF BIOPLASTICS IN POLYMERISATION | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 18004684 | ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS OF WASTE CELLULOSE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
| 17996233 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MOLDED ITEMS | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17788419 | POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR FILMS HAVING IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND DEGRADABILITY | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNovamont S P A has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Sikarl A Witherspoon has the most, with 1 of Novamont S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
